The heightened search of savings for products with a life cycle shorter and shorter, shows the liabilities of an approach to the organization driven by specialization and weak horizontal communication. One of the most fragile lines is in the boundary … Continue reading
The COVID pandemic that, many months in the future, will oblige us to change our behaviours, has introduced the agile work with issues and new approaches to organization development. LorR
Even if everyone knows that the optimum of a system can’t be obtained optimizing its single parts, the history of organizations, together with an aberration of rational thinking, calls for a search of losses and wastes inside each Department. This … Continue reading
Very often productivity is seen as the result of an heavy downsize, reached through important investment in technology or thanks to a new make or buy focalization. This business case shows instead that the same objective is obtainable thru a … Continue reading
The great celebrity that thrives in those last years under the name of Industry 4.0 seems to have overshadowed interventions with minor impacts on technology, known as Lean Production Transformation. A business case throws a new light on the central … Continue reading
La grande notorietà, goduta in questi ultimi anni, da Manifattura 4.0 sembra aver messo in secondo piano interventi con minor impatto su impianti e macchinari, affermatesi sotto l’ombrello della Lean Production. Un caso aziendale riporta però alla centralità dell’organizzazione rispetto … Continue reading
The appearance in the western world of advanced agreements between Customers and Suppliers is changing the perspective of Make or Buy Strategies. In this article, after a short introduction of the three alternatives of pure Market, Vertical Integration and Partnership, … Continue reading
Too often the Toyota approach is confused with the tools that characterize the lean production system, losing sight of the way of thinking that inspired it. It’s reasonable to believe that this deficit of attention can explain the limited success … Continue reading
There are many different ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in a Distribution Center, what you need is a system oriented approach and a good amount of data for a useful exploitation WCL_L&M
Nearly every company, in many Business to Business industries, is firmly persuaded to know what produces value for its customer, nonetheless the market is continuously looking for alternative sources and the hypothesis of a partnership with the suppliers, so often … Continue reading
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