Kate Mackle, founder of  Thinkflow Limited, talks about  the importance of understanding the problems of a company  before assessment can even hope to represent a useful to tool to measure how well the business is doing.

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Oil service companies led by Technip SA (TEC) and Subsea 7 SA (SUBC) for the first time are working with wind energy developers in the North Sea’s 14 billion-euro ($19 billion) a year market.

The offshore engineers plan to exploit the similarities between building undersea oil installations and constructing offshore wind farms and have both established renewable energy units. Petrofac Ltd. (PFC) also offers expertise to wind developers in the North Sea, where fossil fuels first discovered in 1966 are being depleted as clean energy demand rises. click here for more

Special report: Manufacturing and innovation, published by the Economist on April 21st

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Making things with a 3D printer changes the rules of manufacturing click here for more

By Thomas Thorsted & Peter Knorst
”We started our Lean journey at Ford Motor Company in 1983. Inspired and impressed by the success in gaining market share achieved by the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota we went to Japan to study their means and methods, and we came back with the right recipe.
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