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“Ask a 100 people to make a decision and the average decision will be at least as good as the most [intelligent] person. We are programmed to be ‘collectively smart.’ ”
- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, 2008
Improve labor productivity 10% to 30% without spending any capital
In the 1980s, most manufacturing and distribution operations had Industrial Engineers on staff whose task was to break down an operation into its basic motion elements and discover the ‘one best way’ to do an operation. As manufacturing jobs started moving offshore, this task was left to the supervisors, or was just left undone.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 The Progress Group (www.theprogressgroup.com) is a logistics consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. We specialize in logistics thought leadership. For more information about Crowd Engineering, please contact Steve Mulaik at +1 770 329 5675 or email him at smulaik@theprogressgroup.com.
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