In part II, we review many specific examples emphasizing the unity of the basic mechanisms as well as diversity of operations arising from the differences in their detailed structure and kinetics.
These limitations are of particular importance when studying pediatric cardiac surgery because of the relatively low number of cases performed at any one institution or by any one surgeon, the diversity of operations, and the heterogeneity of the congenital cardiac patient population.
Even the diversity of its operations is not the strength that it once appeared to be.
"While the operating environment has been unprecedented and challenging, this result reflects the strength and diversity of our operations".
"It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies".
The decline or failure of many conglomerates, however, has cast doubt upon the competence of any one group of executives to manage a diversity of unrelated operations.
G.E.'s gains, he wrote, were not generated by "the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years)." Even more worrisome, Gross argued, G.E. relied on fickle sources of capital to finance those acquisitions.
The one business it has quit is pharmaceuticals, accepting that there is little overlap between drugs and its other products.The diversity of its operations makes BASF unpopular with some investors because it muddies their view of the firm as a "pure play" on chemicals.
Van Lede says that Akzo provides three lessons for other companies: first, the need to establish clear priorities for the different parts of the business; second, "We have put our money where our mouth is" by divesting major businesses and investing in others; third, by making the diversity of its operations an assetbringing people together from different backgrounds to make new products.
Given the complexity of hospital environments and the diversity of the operations required to meet their needs, certain Lean techniques may be more appropriate for some departments than others.
For different values of diverse subset size k, AdOr outperforms Greedy algorithm in terms of number of operations with negligible loss in achieved diversity.
