According to McKinsey & Co, we certainly all know examples of bad product and service design. The USB plug (always lucky on the third try). The experience of rushing to make your connecting flight at many airports. The exhaust port on the Death Star in Star Wars. The question comes to the fore: How do the best design performers increase their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts?
It is undoubtedly and incontrovertibly true that global extreme poverty has declined as capitalism has driven globalization – the trade between and among nations – to increase over time. Certainly, there are arguments to be made that the growth in wealth has also been increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer people, but the world…
It is time for the top leadership in organizations of all sizes to recognize that an ad-hoc approach to managing e-mail is highly inefficient and an enormous drag on human resources. E-mail management: the prioritization, planning and archiving of e-mail should be systemized and standardized in every organization.
I had a project where I was hired to try to help turn a company around. The challenges faced existed across the entirety of the company. In fact, there was no function of the company that was operating at an acceptable level. This company was very sick. The owner of the company and I made…
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Outliers Inn podcast series – Logistics Topic: Logistics, what’s it all about? It’s a lot more than that dusty warehouse scene at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Join us as we talk about warehouse management, supply chain management, transportation and library stock management. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the…
ByTED
Magician Keith Barry could be thought of as a hacker of the human brain. He writes routines that exploit the brain’s bugs and loopholes, and offers a revealing look at the software between our ears. In this thought-provoking TED talk, he shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast…
ByHBR.org
According to HBR, it’s high time for European and American companies to rethink their Supply Chain Strategies. For too long they have been concentrating on their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities, but in the face of new political and economic uncertainties, they are urged to make their supply chains much more resilient….
