Not only does fear destroy any sense of team spirit and pride, but it also shuts down important communication channels, inhibiting the flow of creative, constructive, and corrective ideas upstream. Just how might the front-line employee fall victim to fear at the workplace? In the 1992 classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin masterfully portrays [...]
The “work cell” can be a pretty mysterious beast to anyone working outside of the Lean Six Sigma arena. But the simple fact is that most people already know how to design a work cell, whether they know it or not. It really is a matter of taking some rather common sense principles, and using [...]
The Supply Chain Canada Conference brings together more than 1200 leading supply chain practitioners. Attendees benefit from more than a wide variety of experienced speakers and industry experts who will share latest trends and best practices as well as provide insights into supply chain issues. In today’s competitive world it is imperative for organizations to [...]
A critical choice in any student’s life is the post-secondary institution that he or she plans to attend. Businesses and public sector entities demand that candidates for employment possess higher and higher levels of skill in virtually every academic discipline, including business, science, social sciences, technology and operations management. The pace of change in the [...]
There is a bewildering amount of choice in today’s market for training, education, and certification. Many who labor within the supply chain eventually come to a watershed moment in their career: they ask themselves, “Am I passionate about this line of work? Do I see a future for me within SCM?” These questions might even [...]
Obtaining a degree in Supply Chain Management is becoming increasingly worthwhile. When I was undertaking the examination preparation courses in pursuit of the APICS CPIM certification in Operations Management, we talked about the notions of “order qualifiers” and “order winners.” Essentially, an “order qualifier” is some attribute that needs to be inherent within a product [...]
ProMat-The Biggest Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expo of 2013 is Coming to Chicago January 21-24 Steve Forbes to Keynote ProMat 2013 Conference on January 22 When the material handling and logistics industry’s premier event, ProMat 2013, opens on January 21 it will include over 800 exhibits and an comprehensive Educational Conference that will focus on solutions [...]
Deming’s 13th Point advises us to “Institute a Vigorous Program of Education and Retraining”. This is critical both for the business entity and for the individual. This is especially true in the 21st Century environment, where technology, as indispensible as it is, changes so rapidly that it is almost impossible to keep up. Some new [...]
It’s difficult to compete with slave labor. In spite of recent scrutiny over questionable labor engagement practices and working conditions, Chinese contractor Foxconn, who assemble Apple’s iPhone line – among other items – is again in the spotlight. The David Barboza and Charles Duhigg reported in yesterday’s New York Times that Foxconn has acknowledged using [...]
Harvard / MIT Initiative a Watershed Reminiscent of The Moon Landing If we truly believe that human enlightenment may be achieved through education, then a recent, and largely unheralded announcement made by edX may prove to be one of the most important initiatives to be launched in decades. We are privileged, in our lifetimes, to [...]
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