Tuesday, January 13, 2004
In his state of the state address, Governor Pataki presented a five point plan to aid manufacturing: 1) Enact a new job training program. 2) Reform corporate taxes. 3) Improve coordination of government assistance porgrams. 4) Improve Power for Jobs which provides cheap electricity to manufacturers. 5) Reform workers compensation.
Improving manufacturing involves more than these types of general responses. In my view, we need to accelerate the adoption of lean manufacturing and six sigma among smaller firms. We need to boost both product and process development through technology transfer. We need to accelerate foreign market entry strategies. And we need to expand career pathways into manufacturing from high schools.
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NY Governor's 5 point manufacturing plan
