E-Mail Postal Service

April 3, 2010
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One of the many business ideas I toss around with friends is a service where physical postal mail is scanned and emailed to the recipient. About a month ago, I commented on a post at The Operations Room, entitled Green Mail. The post was about the USPS transitioning to a more fuel efficient delivery fleet, [...]

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Project Profile: High Volume Food Manufacturing Throughput

March 15, 2010
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Executive Summary – Lean Implementation Saves Food Manufacturing Plant $800k/yr As a management consultant, I worked with a client food manufacturing plant to kick-start a stalling lean implementation. By focusing the effort on throughput at the constraint, lean methodologies such as 5S, Visual Management System, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), plant throughput skyrocketed nearly 60%. [...]

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Pillar of Operations Improvement – Management Behavior

March 4, 2010
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This is the final post of a four part series. You can read the first three posts here: 3 Pillars of Operations Improvement Pillar of Operations Improvement – Business Process Pillar of Operations Improvement – Management Tools First we thought about how any business department operates on a cycle of activities making up a business [...]

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The Operations Room

March 3, 2010
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I came across a cool site today that is as dedicated as any other I’ve found to business operations management as I define it. The Operations Room is written by two Kellogg School of Management professors (Martin Lariviere and Gad Allon). A couple of their recent posts especially caught my eye – Green Mail and [...]

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Media Spin or Irrational Business?

January 31, 2010

I fell hook line and sinker for the title of this article: Steve Jobs Hates Eric Schmidt Unfortunately I think the author of the article did too… The article alleges that Apple may switch the iPhone’s search provider from Google to Microsoft because of a personal distaste of Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) toward Google – [...]

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