Operations Round-Up
Things that caught my eye:
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Boeing Stalls
Dreamliner delays have affected Boeing’s 737 plans with tragic consequences. FAA approach to safety compared to China Aviation.
Foxconn in Wisconsin
I look at the issue of slowly diminishing magnitude of Foxconn plant in Wisconsin.
Bricks and Bones: A Lego Story
Lego’s revenues for 2017 are now out. In September 2017, Financial Times reported on problems at Lego, which was then planning to cut about 8% of its workforce. Indeed, Lego has been suffering from increasingly bigger global operations problems, with poor sales…
Containers!
The Containers Podcast mini-series (with eight self-contained 30-minute episodes) by Alexis Madrigal at Atlantic is amazing! As an Operations academic in a business school, I am a fan of both nitty-gritty details and narrative story-telling canvas. When I came across…