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Each company is trying to figure out how to strategize, how much to invest, what the technology should be. In a case like that, it’s not at equilibrium.

We need exponentially less of the degenerative forms of capitalism and exponentially more of the increasingly resilient and regenerative forms.

What both transportation companies and shippers were slowly coming to grasp was that simply carrying ocean freight in big metal boxes was not a viable business. Yes, it produced some savings: cranes, boxes, chassis, and containerships eliminated much of the cost of loading and unloading vessels at the dock. Shippers, however, cared not about loadin

can we use reuse, recycle, repurpose, or remanufacture this input or output? If we can’t, can we trade it to someone who finds it useful enough to compensate us for it? If we still can’t, we have to find a way to strip it out of the cycle altogether, because cycles can’t be fed with bad inputs that can’t be recycled, reused, or repurposed.

14 Points for Management as presented on the Deming Institute website:7 1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. 2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn thei

The New Economics, published in 1993, the Master simplified his 14 Points for Management into the four elements of the System of Profound Knowledge: 1. The Theory of Knowledge: a theory for knowing how you know something 2. The Theory of Variation: a theory of how to measure what you know 3. The Theory of Psychology: a theory of how to understand h

Pour comprendre le pouvoir de séduction du lean auprès des entreprises, il faut considérer la perte d’efficacité du modèle taylorien-fordien qui apparaît de moins en moins opérationnel dans un contexte de concurrence centré sur la réduction des délais, la réactivité, l’accroissement de la qualité et proposant au consommateur une diversité d’offres

publicly visible.

America has come to embody the most extreme expression of progressive linearism.