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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 class wasn’t some secret management thing.

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‘The locusts are a moving target and we are racing against time’

World Food Programme Logistics

South Sudan is among East African countries experiencing invasions on a scale not seen since 2003–2005 in West Africa A handful of locusts in county Magwi, South Sudan. Joseph Okuera, Chairman of Magwi Farmers group. Scaring off locusts in Magwi is a sadly futile exercise. through its dedicated Locust Group.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

I was going through some old files and came across a pocket card we handed out back in 2003 or so. I remember walking through a facility with a group of managers on the way to the area we were going to see. Paul stopped dead in his tracks in front of a puddle on the floor.

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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations – is it time for a new ‘national support agenda’?

Logistics in War

Defence presently engages with industry through a multiple of channels, with key agents being the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Joint Logistics Command (JLC) and a variety of other groups, units, functions, including the Services, responsible for their own component of the logistics process.

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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations ? is it time for a new ?national support agenda??

Logistics in War

Defence presently engages with industry through a multiple of channels, with key agents being the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Joint Logistics Command (JLC) and a variety of other groups, units, functions, including the Services, responsible for their own component of the logistics process.