What's ironic about this revisionism is that it's easy to dismiss the 1980s vogue for Japanese strategy and techniques only because so many of those techniques have become part of the fabric of everyday life at many, perhaps most, U.S. industrial companies.
US industrial companies use a lot of Japanese techniques.
Under this initiative, the administration will establish a baseline of the extent of erroneous payments and require agencies to include, in their fiscal year 2003 budget submissions, information on erroneous payment rates, including actual and target rates, where available, for benefit and assistance programs over $2 billion.