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Five Hidden Skills that Military Veterans Bring to Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

I used war gaming extensively in Iraq as I was planning simultaneous, night, helicopter insertions of multiple Special Forces teams into southern Iraq. Military leaders love to plan and anticipate how to create the conditions of success for a military operation to succeed. This is essentially a force-on-force game.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. A major disruption in the offshore supply chain can shut down a company and have dire consequences for profitability.

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o9 Solutions Partners with Extraordinary Leaders to help executives Navigate and Accelerate their Digital Transformation Journeys

o9 Solutions

The main topics discussed are leadership, strategy, change management, Digital Transformation journeys, and how to leverage new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to reach your business goals. “I I am very excited that Tony Saldanha, Das Dasgupta, and Dave Koss joined the AIM10x Executive Network.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

They explain, “As waste in Afghanistan and Iraq showed, reconstruction may fail if donors lack coherent strategies or projects are not sustainable or are prone to corruption. ” Concluding Thoughts Planners must keep in mind that reconstruction depends largely on how the war ends.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

To deal with firefighting operations, Production Management taught me how to eliminate the variability and variety I had in my life, and ultimately simplify it to prepare me for a greater entrepreneurial cause. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

To deal with firefighting operations, Production Management taught me how to eliminate the variability and variety I had in my life, and ultimately simplify it to prepare me for a greater Entrepreneurial cause. Trips to places like Iraq made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

To deal with firefighting operations, Production Management taught me how to eliminate the variability and variety I had in my life, and ultimately simplify it to prepare me for a greater entrepreneurial cause. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state.