Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

An eye-opening article via The Loadstar. Over 17% of urban congestion is delivery trucks. The USPS now delivers 5.1 billion packages a year. That is over 10 packages each.

I know I am responsible for a lot more than that.

The source article is below.

Source: Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom – The Loadstar

  It’s the flip-side to the “retail apocalypse:” A siege of delivery trucks is threatening to choke cities with traffic. But not everyone agrees on what to do about it.

Source: How Cities Are Coping With the Delivery Truck Boom – CityLab

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Turning Digital Disruption Into a Building Block for Change

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

This piece by Ken Cottrill from MIT discusses Jeanne Ross’s views on the trends in digital support of enterprises. Clearly they are growing, and it’s also apparent that there is potential for great improvement in enterprises by careful attention to what’s important.  There are two nice cases cited.

But I found most interesting was her statement that

“the operations mindset is not a good fit for highly fluid digital services platforms…”

In operations we tend to think that everything is operations, or at least has a close connection, looked at from the right point of view.   This statement challenges us to think through how the operations community has been limiting itself by its point of view, and perhaps needs to retool with a closer connection with the new practices of agile, customer-centric and user-motivated change.

We need even more of the design thinking and entrepreneurial attitude in operations.

Source: Turning Digital Disruption Into a Building Block for Change

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Newly Raised Section of Bayonne Bridge Open to Traffic

Posted on April 12, 2017 by | Comments Off on Newly Raised Section of Bayonne Bridge Open to Traffic

The bridge in New York is open to traffic, but the big ships cannot pass yet.  Nevertheless, it’s just a matter of some time till the Port of New York/New Jersey starts accommodating the larger ships that can use the Panama Canal now.  This may give the New York area ports a big boost over the other East Coast competition.

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — The newly raised Bayonne Bridge is back in business.

Source: Newly Raised Section of Bayonne Bridge Open to Traffic | New York News | US News

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