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Compared to the high-tech industry with its wealth of product innovations, most industries seem slow and boring. That is what I thought when I visited one of the largest office furniture manufacturers in North America in the summer of 2007. The Global Commodity Manager of the company granted me a tour through the production facility including an area where partition walls for office cubicles and metal filing cabinets were manufactured. The production manager responsible for…