Introduction: The Three Predicates of Our Transformation Model
The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 changed the world—not just in turning back the Ottoman Empire’s growing expansion into the Mediterranean and in securing the defense of Europe, but also in defining what may be the first true transformation of an industry. The defeat of the Ottoman navy by the Holy League’s 206 galleys was largely a function of having transformed the shipbuilding industry at the Arsenal at Venice.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Arsenal, the “House of Manufacture,” at Venice transformed centuries-old shipbuilding production methods—sequencing construction activities to create production lines manned by teams of specialists; standardizing and prefabricating ...
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