During my days at the beach last week, I read an interesting article (“The Rating Game”) by Kevin Maney in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Maney met with Rich Barton, the founder of Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor.com (where employees can rate their employers), and Barton shared his investment philosophy with him: “If it can be rated, it will be rated.”
Maney goes on to… Continue reading
Logistics Viewpoints is going on vacation next week. After six months of daily blog postings, together with my colleague Steve Banker, it’s time for me to unplug for a few days and head to the beach.
Don’t think you’ll survive without your daily fix of Logistics Viewpoints? Then maybe you need a vacation too.
Or you could catch some reruns. Here are the top ten most read postings this quarter:
I had been thinking of writing a piece linking healthcare reform with logistics, but I couldn’t think of the right angle. Then President Obama opened the door for me with comments he made at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday (where the crowd was sedate compared to other town hall meetings).
In response to Ben Hershenson, a Republican from Maine, who expressed concern that… Continue reading
When we think of a supply chain, we tend to think of a chain of activities that starts with sourcing, then manufacturing, and ends with goods arriving at a store. When we think of a logistics fleet, we tend to think of big trucks hauling goods between plants, distribution centers, and stores. Otis Elevator Company has a nontraditional supply chain, a project-based maintenance supply chain, supported by a nontraditional… Continue reading
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What Doesn’t Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger: A New Model of Logistics Excellence
It’s been a year since fuel hit an all time high and companies were scrambling to keep fleets on the road, goods on the shelves and their sanity. And it’s been nine months since the economy went south and the jury’s still out on when we’ll begin the long, arduous climb back to normalcy.
I believe it’s not all bad. In fact, there are lasting lessons to be learned… Continue reading
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