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T here are a number of ways to grow an

electrical contracting business.
Land more jobs. Expand your geographic
base. Develop new specialties.

None, however, are as sure a route to growing profits
as learning and adopting Lean construction practices.
Simply put, Lean practices, developed by Toyota
in the 1950s and popularized by MIT researcher
John F. Krafcik and others in the 1990s, is the art
of reducing waste. Wasted materials. Wasted time.
Wasted energy. The result is greater efficiency,
lowered costs, improved safety, improved quality
and improved customer satisfaction.

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