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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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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather.

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What Is Your Target Story?

The Lean Thinker

The process of creating the personas, and developing the persona map humanizes the group of people that would traditionally be thought of as “the users.”*. Then develop training experiences and exercises that they believe will allow the learner to pass the test. Testing Your Target Condition.

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Sales Saboteur with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

Next is the group that are trying to gain acceptance: * The hyper-achiever: one who has no idea of what is good or excellent because they need to be perfect. * The last group is the people who are trying to gain security: * The restless: people who are always wanting to move on to the next thing. *

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

I remember walking through a facility with a group of managers on the way to the area we were going to see. Here’s an example: Say your plant has a set of rules about how fork trucks are to be operated – speed limits, staying out of marked pedestrian lanes, etc. Sometimes that gap is small. Sometimes it is huge.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. At some companies, these relocations involved moving groups of different sizes from different offices with hundreds of possible destinations. The groups themselves were non-homogeneous with people of different ages and interests.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Strategy and leadership teams might elect to be alerted to production line disruptions, for example, so they receive details about every impacted order. Prior to founding FourKites, Matt spent 7 years in the enterprise software space working for market leaders such as Oracle Corp and i2 Technologies/JDA Software Group.