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Where Do You Start Improving Your Organizational Performance?

August 2, 2011
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In this recorded excerpt from the February 2010 meeting of the AME/APQC Benchmarking Community of Practice, Gary Foster, CEO and general manager, Automation Engineering Corporation (AEC), discusses AEC's journey to manufacturing excellence. In this clip he describes five goals in the business plan his organization implemented in mid-2009 to improve performance.

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