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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

The second part of the class involved a facilitator leading our group through discussion of the “grieving process” as it relates to “change” and trying to draw out how we felt about it. Then we were video-linked to other groups in identical sessions, perhaps in some effort to show how we were all in this together.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. this is particularly true in ERP / MRP environments.) In practice, though, these systems tend to isolate people from one another, or into small single task groups in much the same way as happened in the coal mine. Productivity plummeted. The Mechanistic View.

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Supply Chain Glossary of Terms

Logistics Bureau

ABC Analysis: A form of Pareto analysis applied to a group of products to enable selective inventory management controls. ABC Classification: The classification of inventory, after ABC analysis, into three basic groups for the purpose of stock control and planning. A items may also be of strategic importance to the business concerned.