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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Balanced Production Operations - How Desirable?
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Monday, May 12, 2008. Balanced Production Operations - How Desirable? What is wrong with this picture? The second fact ignored by the balanced operations design is the reality and pervasiveness of Murphy's Law: uncertainty exists. Negative uncertainty manifests itself in the form of cancelled customer orders, machines downtimes, setups taking longer than scheduled, employee unavailability (due to illness or plain truancy) etc. What is the impact of the combination of these two realities? The resources pr...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: The New Face of Wealth
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Monday, April 14, 2008. The New Face of Wealth. What wealth is not? It is neither money nor paychecks. It has nothing to do with acquisitions. Its neither riches nor possessions. It is not a university degree. It is neither carnal nor spiritual. It is not demonic. What was the budget for creation? How did Solomon become the richest man that ever lived? Does a university or polytechnic degree guarantee wealth? If God does not print pounds and dollars then He must have a medium of exchange! Memorization af...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Two Reasons Why Improvement Efforts Yield Little
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008. Two Reasons Why Improvement Efforts Yield Little. Often, companies begin improvement programmes with plenty of noise and fanfare, with promises of performance leaps designed to take them "to the next level". Almost ojust as often, these lofty dreams fail to materialise. There are two main reasons for this: failure to focus and failure to subordinate. Only that which makes the weakest link stronger! Thus we must keep in mind Goldratt's first two rules for properly managing and imp...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: What Is Your ETDBW Rating?
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008. What Is Your ETDBW Rating? Before I write anything else, I'd better define ETDBW. It's short for "Easy to Do Business With". Why would such a measure be necessary? Well, if you're like most people, you've probably interacted with organisations that seemed to go out of their way to make it difficult to do business with them. Two stories will illustrate the point. After jumping through a number of hurdles seemingly designed to discourage me from opening the account, I came to their ...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Two Reasons Why Improvement Efforts Yield Little
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Monday, May 12, 2008. Two Reasons Why Improvement Efforts Yield Little. Often, companies begin improvement programmes with plenty of noise and fanfare, with promises of performance leaps designed to take them "to the next level". Almost ojust as often, these lofty dreams fail to materialise. There are two main reasons for this: failure to focus and failure to subordinate. Only that which makes the weakest link stronger! Thus we must keep in mind Goldratt's first two rules for properly managing and improv...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Fuel Scarcity in Nigeria- an NNC’s Perspective
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Thursday, April 10, 2008. Fuel Scarcity in Nigeria- an NNC’s Perspective. Of recent has been going through another round of fuel crisis with attendant queues at Petrol Stations across the country. The imminent cause remains in the realm of speculation; an apparent attempt by the government to hike the pump price of fuel, Pipe vandalization by vandals, port congestion, just to mention a few. This issue of fuel crisis seems to have no end in. Country with the largest oil reserve after. Vol 103, No. 47 (.
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Hearing your Customer
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008. The Most Important Person in Your Business. It is helpful, when thinking of your customers, to be guided by the following statement on the subject by Mahatma Gandhi,. Peter Drucker's assertion that the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, directly supports this view. If these statements are true, then it makes sense to do all you can to gain a deep understanding of your customers. What are their concerns and motivations? Tools for Hearing the Customer's Voice.
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Achieving Distribution Excellence
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008. Distribution is the function that moves items from their source through layers of diverging nodes to the point where they are purchased by the end users. An organisation may have an integrated supply chain, where the manufacturing and distribution functions are within the same business. Alternatively, the distribution function may be one or more separate businesses. Talking of dumping, this is exactly what happens when fashion shops declare clearance sales when the new season's ...
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KAMAL OYEDUNLE: Why 90% Of All Projects Finish Late
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Saturday, March 08, 2008. Why 90% Of All Projects Finish Late. For each of the examples mentioned above, the following hold true:. The objective is a unique, non-routine outcome. The effort required to achieve the outcomes desired is temporary. That is to say projects have a start and finish date. This is in contrast to operations which are ongoing. The non-routine nature of projects accentuates the impact of uncertainty. Enter the human factor. It means that the time given for each project task is an av...
