Repeatability

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The company developed experience curves for the one

hundred eighty manufacturing lines across the sixty factories

globally. Since those lines were covering five different technolo-

gies, the company started to compare curves by technologies

and was quickly able to define targets by line by factory, and

not only for the next budgeting cycle, but for the long term. The

first benefit of this simple, aligned approach was the clarity of

dialogue between senior executives and the ability to set real

targets versus relevant comparisons, as well as to learn and share

practices across the system. In just the first few years, even this

relatively basic system has completely changed the trajectory of

the learning ...