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It was the spring of 1995 and my firm (XONITEK) was one of the top implementers of Macola Software’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. We were the very top when it came to implementing in a manufacturing environment. As such, I was invited to Macola’s summit to share my views on the future direction of…
Most of us read about the recent leadership changes at Toyota. Many industry experts criticized Toyota’s lack of innovation and the gap with Tesla as the main reason for the succession. Despite Toyota’s status as an industry benchmark, we have to ask: Did “lean” impede innovation? My answer is “NO”. I had the opportunity to…
Hello and welcome to another edition of State of Readiness with your host, Joseph Paris. My guest today is Norbert Majerus; Author of “Lean-Driven Innovation” and “Winning Innovation” and a Lean Champion (Ret) from the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He confesses that he went into engineering because he didn’t like to working with people…
Another episode of The Outliers Inn with “The Beer Man” joining JP and Mule as co-co-host. Maybe he will become a regular co-co-host (he’s already an irregular regular guest here at The Outliers Inn. After a brief acknowledgement that the Super Bowl was pretty entertaining, but nobody we know really cared who won, we get…
The last several years have made a mockery of many predictions. The economy didn’t tank. The mid-term election wasn’t a wipeout. There wasn’t a carrier “Armageddon.” Those years have also made a mockery of many supply chain and logistics strategies and services. A number of macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges, as well as significant learnings about…
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The political events of 2022 have once again demonstrated how important intact logistical supply chains are for the global economy and the population. This is also reflected in the future trends and challenges in logistics. Here, the focus remains primarily on aspects of digitization, but with an increased attention to making supply chains more resilient…
