Man: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and "welcome to the Factories of the Year award. My name is Jonathan Hargreaves, and I’m Chief Executive of the Institute of Production Research, which organised these awards, in association with Barrington Business School. I’m delighted to introduce to you the school’s professor of manufacturing science, Jacqueline Allen, who again chaired the panel of judges. Jacqueline.
女:謝謝喬納森的介紹,大家早上好。今年在評選年度工廠的過程中,我們看到了大量頗為出色的勝出者,這恰好證明了我們的傳統(tǒng)經(jīng)濟(jì)并沒有死亡,反而從最近的問題中煥發(fā)出了活力。這點頗讓人感到欣慰。我們一直都是通過向每個參賽工廠發(fā)放問卷的形式來評選最佳工廠,今年也不例外。我們的問卷有14頁,問題的量可能也超過了受訪者愿意接受的范圍。每個工廠都是在他們的回答的基礎(chǔ)上,按照一系列績效標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來評估的。