Unreasonable Ambition and Disciplined Execution Put Alstom T ransport on the Fast T rack for Growth In 2006, maintenance issues on a new ?eet of trains that Alstom Transport serviced for Virgin Trains were causing the company to miss the availability targets speci?ed in their contracts. To turn things around, Alstom began to apply lean techniques—rapid changeover methods and policy deployment, in particular—to transform the maintenance

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