Engineers, consultants and management thinkers who studied how to raise the productivity of factories and workplaces and whose methods became part of industrial economics. An economist belongs here when the cited article credits the person with scientific management, time and motion study, quality management, kaizen or lean production. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Scientific Management and Continuous Improvement Pioneers, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Frederick Winslow Taylor (Wikipedia)
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Taylor made his name, and was most proud of his work, in scientific management
View the Source Masaaki Imai (Wikipedia)
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known for his work on quality management, specifically on kaizen.
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