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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

For example, Wal-Mart is very clearly intent on providing consumers with the lowest prices, while Target offers “the better low-price shopping experience” Kmart though, is kind of stuck in the middle with no clear message to differentiate itself. A Long History of Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment.

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What Steph Curry and LeBron James Can Teach Us About Innovation

GlobalTranz

And in doing so, he provides a perfect example of the power of disruptive innovation. Exercises to improve dribbling skills to imitate Curry’s will become common. Disruptive innovation is not training to jump half an inch higher or lifting weights to get 10 percent stronger. However, many players will also seek to imitate Steph.

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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three

Logistics in War

When we returned to Australia, I tasked an officer (who did not deploy with us) to take our War Diary and write a Command Post Exercise using the Battalion Ops Log to build in the many Lower and Higher Control problems with which unit operations staff would have to deal. An additional example was the Terminal Troop.