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2. Systemic approach to the industrial company
2.1 Emergence of a new way of thinking
An alternative to this Cartesian approach, and one of the most promising ways of tackling this unprecedented change, is most likely to be found in the systems approach. Descartes' reductionist, analytical approach taught us that, in order to tackle a complex situation, we should "divide each of the difficulties I examine into as many parts as might be required to solve them better. [...] to make everywhere such complete enumerations and such general reviews that I would be sure of omitting nothing" .
It is this precept that is literally applied in the silo...
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• Lean Enterprise Project http://www.lean.enst.fr/wiki/bin/view/Lean/WebHome
• TV Operational Excellence http://www.excellence-operationnelle.tv
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