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This month, the world lost one of the most important supply chain pioneers you probably never heard of when George Laurer III died at 94. As an engineer at IBM in the early 1970s, Laurer invented the basic barcode. In doing so, he also provided a
The Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam School of Business has just published an important white paper that explores the secrets to supply chain success. In all, the authors described more than 250 documented best practices of high performance organizations (HPOs). The research studied
Business creates an ocean of data to navigate, but enterprise managers increasingly are adrift and drowning. That’s the premise of Anne Fisher’s latest must-read Fortune story, “Now Hiring: People Who Can Translate Data Into Stories and Actions.” It’s particularly relevant to our readership. Nowhere are the waters
Thirty two years ago last week, Apple first aired its famous “Think Different” TV commercial. The ad became one of the most celebrated campaigns in history for its celebration of visionaries who nudge the world in new directions. Picasso. Albert Einstein. Richard Branson. Amelia Earhart.
The Six Sigma world talks about the idea of a “Hidden Factory” as part of an overall quality discussion. The hidden factory represents all the additional production that could be unlocked if a company stopped creating waste due to inefficiency or poor quality and instead
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