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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

Of course, a high stock price enriches those people who already own shares, and makes options and stock grants more valuable, but they didn’t get into that either. ” The result was a 32 hour course that ran two days, then a break, then two days the following week. Elimination of waste: Focus on adding value.

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Supply Chain Data Visibility Paramount as Industry Lurches into Next Chapter

IoT World Today

Supply chains will survive COVID-19, of course, but not without interim pain and structural change. Compare China’s share today with 2002, during the SARS epidemic, when China represented only 4% of world GDP. But with a black-swan event, it just magnifies the risk.”. Sign up for virtual event updates here. ].

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5 examples of the black swan theory

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Today we are going to find out what the black swan theory means, how it affects the economy and the society overall and several examples of how the black swan events have changed the words. Even though,the black swan events are often inappropriately rationalised after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

It is in the light of these facts that the commander expects to shape his course during the supervision of the planned action.’ [1]. It is necessary for us in the ADF to prepare for the confluence of events that inevitable occur over a longer term than we envisage. From Sound Military Decision , United States Naval College, 1942.

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How to Improve Manufacturing Floor Data Collection

GlobalTranz

Although it was published in 2002, the case study highlighted the data collection struggles of a particular manufacturing company that probably rings true for many SMEs and large corporations alike. It’s often the case that specialist computer systems will require a qualified engineer to fix them in the event of a malfunction.

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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on

Logistics in War

If you feel I am wrong in any recollection of an issue or event, you may be right. 4] Australian National Audit Office report, Management of Australian Defence Force Deployments to East Timor , 20 March 2002. However, for simplicity I’ll use the term logistics. [2]