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Dreamliner delays have affected Boeing’s 737 plans with tragic consequences. FAA approach to safety compared to China Aviation.
Leave a CommentI look at the issue of slowly diminishing magnitude of Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.
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Lego’s revenues for 2017 are now out. In September 2017, Financial Times reported on problems at Lego, which was then planning to cut about 8% of its workforce. Indeed, Lego has been suffering from increasingly bigger global operations problems, with poor sales in Europe and North America. There have been reports of inventories piling up at distribution centers. One of the reasons attributed for Lego’s troubles is that Lego has been distracted from its core competencies, by investing in movie franchising and so on. While that is partly true, as I will explain below, Lego’s core business itself has some fundamental issues, that need to be resolved. Let’s look at some Data and I point out two issues with Lego’s Operations Planning.…
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The Containers Podcast mini-series (with eight self-contained 30-minute episodes) by Alexis Madrigal at Atlantic is amazing! As an Operations academic in a business school, I am a fan of both nitty-gritty details and narrative story-telling canvas. When I came across the Containers podcast my stoicism vanished, and I was giddy with excitement. Containers are one of those mundane things that fundamentally changed global trade and turned supply chains into complex organisms. You would be completely mistaken to think that a podcast on containers would be boring. Alexis Madrigal brilliantly weaves logistics facts with human interest stories that form the cogs in gigantic machinery of global trade. He talks about the history of Oakland, the “deaths” of longshoremen, poetry, Filipino lives, logistics,…
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