 What typified Taylorism?
These two features−the global scale of interdependence of human action, and the systematic acceleration of innovation, make contemporary life a bit like a slow motion disaster, in one important respect. The solution to this increased complexity in the late 19th, early 20th century was to increase the role of structure and improve its design. In business, this rationalization was typified by Fredrick Taylor’s Scientific Management, later embodied in Henry Ford’s assembly line. It underlay the development of the enormously successful state bureaucracies that responded to the Great Depression with the New Deal. What replaced planning and control in these systems was the myth of perfect markets. This approach was widespread and influential; it still is.
 The ambition to measure and specify all human and material elements of the production system.
 Identifying opportunities and challenges to action and acting upon them.  Location of authority and practical capacity to act at the edges of the system.  Loosely-coupled systems.  The ambition to measure and specify all human and material elements of the production system.