My mother told me why she and my father were sending me to college in the United States. “They have better facilities,” she said. She was right. The Philippines where I came from had good teachers. Philippine universities also offered courses and curricula similar as one would find in the USA. What the country lacked,Continue reading “Facilities in the Supply Chain”
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Strategic Planning as Problem Solving: Why Not?
We sometimes create problems more than we encounter them. A large conglomerate builds a huge packaging facility in the outskirts of Manila. When I visited the plant, I asked the operations manager why such a big facility was built? “We built the facility to attract customers,” the operations managers said. “So, it was built,Continue reading “Strategic Planning as Problem Solving: Why Not?”
The Power of Building on Ideas
We get ideas all the time. Many we quickly forget or shelve and most don’t prosper beyond the fleeting thoughts they had been. Many ideas are originally not ours. Many ideas we notice while interacting with other people. We see some that seems worth the trouble to invest time and resources in such that weContinue reading “The Power of Building on Ideas”
We Get More Via Mutually Beneficial Relationships
The parish priest wanted to construct a building beside the church. The new building would be a venue to host church gatherings and organisational meetings. He asked his parishioners for help. A construction contractor approached the priest and offered to build the church at what he said would be half his standard price. The 50%Continue reading “We Get More Via Mutually Beneficial Relationships”
