Day of the seafarer
June 25 2011 is the Day of the Seafarer. We should thank seafarers for their contribution to the world’s wellbeing.
I personally want to thank some of my student seafarers, those who came to Cal Maritime after some years on the sea. there were many, and I learned from each one something of importance about the lifestyle, the hardship, and the value of the seafaring life.
Posted in Leadership, Shipping, Supply Chains
How does Apple succeed? Being control freaks about operations. Should we be? Control freaks both succeed and don’t, depending on whether they control the right things well.
I can remember the day when IBM were control freaks about anything to do with their computers. This is in part the old tension between preserving proprietary content and opening up to get more customers (and possibly cheaper ones who have a lower Total Cost of Ownership reservation price).
Charles Fine’s interesting research on the endless cycle between vertical integration and modularity is relevant here, and his notion of cycle time.
The genius behind the Apple Store « The Operations Room
Posted in Production Operations
This is a very interesting analysis of why jobs in manufacturing might move back here, or at least out of China.
Those of you who are into the nuts and bolts modeling will want to read the following Management Science article.
Posted in Production Operations, Strategy, Supply Chains
Supply Chain Digest Port Technology International Marine Link
