Whether this can be replicated at Gordon's is another matter.
His hope, he said, is that A-Tech's academic success can be replicated at schools across the country.
This goal clarity must be replicated at every level of the organisation – in directorates, teams and for individual frontline staff.
What works in Casa Grande, one of 37 plants it operates in the United States and Canada, would then be replicated at other sites where possible.
"Once we can prove the program increases the students' graduation and retention rates," she says, "it can be replicated at other colleges".
The quality is good, too, but not so good that the experience cannot be replicated at a couple of dozen Japanese restaurants in Manhattan.
"The great, rich diversity of Americans they will be working with the rest of their lives" can't be replicated at home, she said.
The transformation of the curriculum at Howe Dell school could be replicated at a school near you in the very near future.
These experiments may produce smart ideas that deserve to be replicated at the national level: the Massachusetts health care law, for example, which inspired Obamacare.
All these factors, the two academics claim, can be replicated at low cost in the market, capturing most of the benefits.
Determined to deliver "astonishing" designs that can be replicated at home, Ms. Stafford tested each pattern thoroughly before publication, "wrecking" her body in the process, and requiring her to seek a physical therapist to soothe her stiff joints.
