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...understand what Business Stripped Bare is really about; it probably could use a chapter about reading between the lines. So ask yourself, Do I really need another lecture along these lines, especially from some bloke who's also dying to sell me an airline ticket or cell-phone service...
Lipson, who started the publicly traded company 27 years ago to sell equipment like ultrasound machines to China's then generally ill-equipped public hospitals, says she first approached officials about a private-model health-care experiment in the early 1990s. The result was Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, a joint venture between Chindex and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Today Chindex runs two hospitals and five outpatient centers. Additional hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou are set to open in 2010, and two more outpatient clinics will open this year...
Richland International's website describes luxury rooms that are "conducive to healing," featuring amenities such as bathrooms, Internet access, refrigerators and personal safes. Hospitals such as Richland and United Family typically sell levels of membership. A year of basic care runs about $730, but memberships with more elaborate care cost as much as $14,600, according...
...comprising a purchasing engineer, a design engineer and a quality engineer--called PDQ--in charge of taking that part from concept through production. "The three of them together act as a business," says Tony Stefanelli, Buell's senior platform director. "They're like entrepreneurs, developing a product that they sell back to Buell every day on the assembly line." Instead of handing off their work to the line engineers, Buell designers own their parts through the manufacturing process. "If your part design isn't working, you have to go over to the line or to the supplier and face...
Sport bikes may dominate Europe, but Buell's methodology is a distinctly American recipe, one that he has honed by fostering a culture of cooperation, ownership and innovation. The nine models Buell sells can be run at any time on its single 50-person assembly line. Each station uses handicraft instead of the automation characteristic of most lines. Small teams promote ownership, and there are no individual supervisors, which cuts out a hierarchical layer. To avoid boredom, each employee is required to know the job ahead of him and behind him on the line and rotates throughout the week. "People...