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SICOR Italy manufactures both traditional reducers and gearless machines for lifts.
FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY
Process Science and Organisation Sociology: The Keys to the Success of SICOR Italy’s Production System Alessia Venturi ipcm®
Sometimes, technology alone is not enough to make things work: it can improve a company’s productivity, but its concrete results depend on the environment in which it is applied. Indeed, productivity gains are not automatic: they depend strictly on the skills involved, the company’s organisational structure, its process and product knowledge, and the implementation of appropriate tools to interface with suppliers and customers on an equal footing.
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ometimes, even in the face of significant investments in the latest
maintains high margins of technological uncertainty “as a strategy for the
technologies, a company’s production comes to a “stalemate” due
arbitrary management of non-legitimised power with the sole purpose
to a vicious circle created between the lack of skills of some and
of systematically opposing the directives prescribed by the formal
the autocratic tendencies of others. Such a vicious circle nurtures and
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organisation”, to quote Michel Crozier.