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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation

Strategy Driven

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. This transportation waste can happen in the manufacturing process itself, in the storage of inventory, or in your maintenance processes. The ''Wastes'' of Execution: Transportation !

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Department of Commerce, the U.S.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

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Solutions Future Focus Program

Mike Cardus

Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc…. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

Then make notes about past accomplishments that clearly demonstrate your successes in those areas. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Unflappable during crises.

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Morning Advantage: A Serious Attempt at "Pay What You Want"

Harvard Business Review

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. But, that didn’t stop two successful Division I women’s basketball coaches from venturing into the bedsheet business, hoping to disrupt the industry with their innovative idea for “high performance” sheets.