In this week's episode of 'Manufacturing Think Tank With Cliff Waldman,' host Cliff Waldman welcomes McKinsey and Company partner Charles Atkins to discuss McKinsey's latest productivity study of which he is a coauthor. After summarizing the basic findings of the research, Charles answers a wide range of questions on such issues as measurement challenges in productivity research, the role of technology in productivity outcomes and the impact of management practice on productivity performance. The episode concludes with a discussion of supply chains and their relationship to productivity outcomes.

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