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Yearly Archives: 2005
Dell’s Supply Chain
Two articles on Dell’s supply chain. Living in Dell Time by Joshua Lutz: The aftershocks of the port closings reverberated for weeks. Many companies began to question the wisdom of running so lean in an uncertain world, and demand for … Continue reading
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Lean Information Technology
Topic: Management Improvement A new Lean Blog, Compound Thinking, focuses on Information Technology. It has started off with some interesting posts, including – Compound Thinking: Lean Manufacturing Principles — Trust the Team [the broken link was removed]: If you aren’t … Continue reading
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Toyota Supply Chain Ideas for Big Box Stores
Teaching the Big Box New Tricks (bozos at Fortune deleted the web page so I deleted the link) – What Toyota knows about supply chains – and how to apply it to almost anything, even megastores – from Fortune. At … Continue reading
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The 10 most important business developments
The 10 Most Important Business Developments [the broken link was removed] by Cameron Crotty, relating to the semiconductor industry: >The Quality Revolution The competitive pressure sparked a surge of quality initiatives throughout the U.S. chip industry, all based on statistical … Continue reading
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Bill Hunter and Peter Scholtes
Topic: Management Improvement I have recently updated Peter Scholtes‘ web site (author of the Team Handbook and the Leader’s Handbook) and created a new web site for my father: Bill Hunter – williamghunter.net. They were friends and colleagues. I frequently … Continue reading
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The Power of Why
NUMMI Tour Tale #3: The Power of Why by Mark Graban: Again, another “wow” moment. For one, NUMMI put the situation in customer terms. Do not use these parts, because there would be a negative impact on the customer. It … Continue reading
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The Toyota Phenomenon
The Toyota Phenomenon [the broken link was removed] by Ernst Glauser: Toyota’s success starts with its brilliant production engineering, which puts quality control in the hands of the line workers who have the power to stop the line or summon … Continue reading
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Deming Review Postcasts
Postcast on W. Edwards Deming by Paul C. Palmes. This is the first of three programs dedicated to the teachings of W. Edwards Deming. The Internet has numerous websites devoted to his thoughts and methods. I strongly suggest that you … Continue reading
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Management Training Program
Fog Creek Software Management Training Program by Joel Spolsky: Finally, when you’re really really good, they let you hang around with Yussef on the ovens. Yussef was about 100 years old and so good at running the ovens it was … Continue reading
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Manufacturing and the Economy
In Global Market, Iowa Manufacturers Fight for Survival: The conventional wisdom has been that expanded trade would result in the United States losing low-pay, low-skilled manufacturing jobs, said David Swenson, an economic scientist at Iowa State University. But “a lot … Continue reading →