Leanspeak: The Productivity Business Improvement Dictionary
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I: Implementation ISO 14000
implementation
the second stage in a three-stage change process, which becomes operative after pilot projects have proved their worth and have been adopted as a standard. See also initialization and institutionalization.
indirect manufacturing costs
manufacturing costs that cannot be traced directly to the product such as factory rent, maintenance wages, and depreciation of general production machinery.
industrial revolution
an extended period of growth in human productivity that began early in the 18th century by the introduction of the division of labor. In the late 19th century the introduction of steam powered mechanization, the cost of which was quickly reduced by the discovery of coal and then petroleum, led to a further acceleration of productivity. The term industrial revolution is commonly but mistakenly used to refer only to the introduction of steam power.
information age
a current period in our economic history in which the brokering of very large quantities of information, especially new information, by means of computers and high speed communications has become a basis of wealth and power. Compare to knowledge era.
information architecture
the flow of information within an organization, not limited to that contained in management information systems using information technology. Information architecture comprises all formal and informal information flows, especially those that are vital to quality, cost, and other production values. Compare to just-in-time information and visual control.
initialization
the first stage in a three-stage change process, which involves selling others on an idea and testing the...
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