Archive for 'Supply Chain Management' Category
Toyota this and Toyota that…
17 February 2010If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What happens when Toyota falls flat? The price of success is hubris and there is for the hangers on a measure of schadenfraude to be had. To put it delicately, hot water is a kind description for the fabled […]
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A decade in Supply Chain Timeline
26 January 2010SC Digest has a recent article: A decade in Supply Chain Timeline illustrating a decade in the supply chain timeline. What astonishes me about the decade is how quickly the mighty have fallen. Or rather how quickly some of the no-brainer trends seem to go quite limp.
The stars from the report in my opinion […]
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Continuous Improvement from my book in progress
13 November 2009I’m writing a book and I’ve put up one of the chapters from that book aptly titled Supply Chain Heresies (for now). The chapter that I’ve completed is called Continuous Improvement. Download it and send me critiques if you’d be so kind and so inclined.
Have a great weekend.
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The end of the Great Recession
5 November 2009The Great Recession is finally over. So says Mark Zandi in his testimony before the Joint Economic Committee: The Impact of the Recovery Act on Economic Growth.
From that report,
This downturn will go into the record books as the longest, broadest and most severe since the Great Depression (see Table 1). The recession was twice […]
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The “C” shaped recovery:
30 October 2009Are you pat down with the “V” shaped recovery or perhaps the “U” shaped recovery? Or perhaps, you’re attuned to stair stepping model of recovery that is headed to the dungeon of doom (nefarious toothless grin on my face)?
As you might gather from the dates between the last post and this one, I’ve been […]
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Webinar on Supply Chain Risk Management
6 August 2009I want to alert you to a new free webinar on Supply Chain Risk Management: Supply Chain - it’s Risky Business hosted by World Trade Group (WTG) and presented by Douglas Kent. From the brief of the webinar,
This webinar examines the responses from hundreds of global companies to our recent supply chain risk survey, unveiling […]
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Will GM go bankrupt again?
5 August 2009There are a select group of chosen companies that seem to go bankrupt again and again - they seem to have a bankruptcy addiction. They just can’t seem to help themselves - someone would think Airlines in this context. I am beginning to think that GM is going to join that select list if such […]
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