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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. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group. Keegan McCready, Sr.

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

Logistics in War

Equally, these anecdotes present the ADF experience as one defined by collective complacency and hubris at a policy level. These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists. appear to include the following.

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

Logistics in War

Equally, these anecdotes present the ADF experience as one defined by collective complacency and hubris at a policy level. These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why.

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Penske Associates from Panama, Jamaica and France Become U.S. Citizens

Penske Move Ahead

Kamara’s grateful to her Penske team for making a game of asking one another questions from her citizenship study guide while on the job. Michael Brown, Technician II, Atlanta, Georgia – Penske Truck Leasing, emigrated from Jamaica to the United States in 2002. I was not expecting it at all,” she said.

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Some reading suggestions, while you wait in the airport!

Blog on Log

“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books, 2002) Publisher’s Blurb: “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” and consequently make better-informed decisions.