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

Strategy Driven

Excess Transportation, the second of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the additional transportation costs incurred by an organization when unnecessarily moving materials, parts, or finished goods within the operations cycle. Can you think of examples of excessive transportation waste within your organization?

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

Strategy Driven

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Solutions Future Focus Program

Mike Cardus

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. People will be asked to join into teams of no greater than 6 (need to discuss teams).

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. ” -Stefan Thomke. It was immediately launched.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation. Modern Indentured Servitude. We call these the new silent killers of productivity and profitability. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets.

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