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How Haier Turned Its Factory Floor Into a Startup Incubator
Episode 29 of The Operations Podcast explores Haier's radical 'Rendanheyi' model, which broke a 70,000-person appliance maker into thousands of self-managed micro-enterprises. Lucas walks through the 2005 restructuring that turned assembly-line workers into profit-and-loss owners, and how the approach slashed inventory days from 30-plus to single digits while boosting new-product velocity. Luna presses on the cultural friction: what happens when a manager's job disappears overnight. The episode closes with whether Haier's model could work outside China—and why a 2025…
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