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Tesco Pauses USA Expansion

Posted on March 31, 2008 by John Hunter

Pausing for reath at fresh & easy (Tesco’s USA stores) We’ve opened 31 stores in 66 days so far this year…now we’re pausing for breath… However, after opening our first 50, we planned to have a 3 month break from … Continue reading →

Posted in Lean thinking, Management | Tagged retail, Tesco | 1 Comment

Tesco in the USA

Posted on August 22, 2007 by John Hunter

Tesco is opening Fresh and Easy stores in the USA: starting with Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world and well known for using lean management methods. I added Tesco … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Lean thinking, Management, Respect, Systems thinking | 1 Comment

Tesco: Lean Provision

Posted on June 8, 2006 by John Hunter

Lean Provision Is Tesco’s Secret Weapon in Battle with Wal-Mart (annoyingly Yahoo has deleted that web page so I removed the link) (update again here is the LEI press release [the broken link was removed, The Lean Enterprise Institute doesn’t … Continue reading →

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What Innovation Means to Tesco

Posted on March 29, 2006 by John Hunter

What innovation means to Tesco [the broken link was removed] by Sir Terry Leahy (Chief Executive of Tesco): Innovators are all around us; innovation is after all just another word for an idea and we can all have those. Businesses … Continue reading →

Posted in Lean thinking, Respect, Systems thinking, UK | Tagged Innovation | 1 Comment

Management Blog Posts From June 2006

Posted on June 26, 2010 by John Hunter

Management Advice Failures – It is amazing to me how often we accept non-solutions. If someone objects that we have tried that “solution” and it didn’t work they are often shut down with a version of: “don’t be negative” or … Continue reading →

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Lean Inventories Do Not Excuse Failing to Deliver

Posted on November 20, 2009 by John Hunter

Low inventory levels do not mean failing to have products available for customers. Now, if you manufacturing in huge batches and can’t respond to customer feedback then it might mean failure to predict customer demand does mean failure to deliver. … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer focus, Lean thinking, Management, Manufacturing, Process improvement, Systems thinking | Tagged Customer focus, customer service, Economics, lean management, lean manufacturing, Lean thinking, Process improvement | 2 Comments

Agile PDSA

Posted on September 16, 2008 by John Hunter

Dr. Deming encouraged the use of the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle to improve. Agile Management encourages a similar mindset – to test out ideas in practice and adapt quickly. A key to both strategies is to quickly iterate over possible solutions. Tesco … Continue reading →

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2008 Posts

Posted on April 27, 2008 by John Hunter

curiouscat.com > Curious Cat Management Improvement > Management Blog > Archive Most popular posts – 2004 posts – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 April 2008 Detailed Monthly Archive 24: Toyota Canada CIO on Genchi Genbutsu and Kaizen 22: Deming and Performance Appraisal … Continue reading →

12 Stocks for 10 Years – Adding Danaher

Posted on February 5, 2008 by John Hunter

With Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo I am replacing Yahoo with Danaher in the 12 Stocks for 10 Years portfolio. Other stocks in the portfolio include Google up 137% since purchased, PetroChina up 132%, Amazon up 106% and Toyota up 44%. … Continue reading →

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2007 Posts

Posted on August 25, 2007 by John Hunter

curiouscat.com > Curious Cat Management Improvement > Management Blog > Archive Most popular posts – 2004 posts – 2005 – 2006 – 2008 December 2007 Detailed Monthly Archive 29: Communicating Change 26: Carnival of Human Resources #23 24: Bigger Impact: 15 to 18 … Continue reading →