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A Management Consultant @ Large Latest Posts
Creating Secure Global Freight Networks
Ocean ContainersIn 1988 Don Schneider, CEO of Schneider National, Inc., the largest U.S. truckload motor carrier, over-ruled the advise of his executive team and decided to invest some $4,000 per truck in an experimental on-board computer system (from Qualcomm) that would allow continuous... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Kellogg's Old and New
100th Anniversary Limited EditionPreviously we had reported on Kellogg's commitment to promote only healthy food to children (see Kellogg Reformulates). Kellogg recently announced significant progress in both introducing new, healthier foods and in reformulating some of its old favorites.Last... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Too Many Starbucks?
Orin SmithIn 1999 when I first met Orin Smith, the now retired ceo of Starbucks, I was impressed with his warmth, intelligence and sincerity. I live in Chicago, where Starbucks had claimed an early beachhead, so I was familiar with the company's proclivity to create storefronts in close... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
A Lifecycle Approach to Retail Store Development
Prototype stores are never built.Every time a store is conceived a team of architects, contractors, interior designers, attorneys and others creates a new design. Along the way they make a series of decisions to accommodate local zoning, parcel limitations, neighborhood tastes and structural... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Beer and Chips: Optimizing Truck Loading
Optimizing truck loadingIf you think your trucks are running full, you probably have not met Tom Moore. A logistician with a keen eye for the critical, overlooked detail, Tom knows the importance of getting an extra pallet on a truck that is about to depart Memphis for Miami, and he has helped... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Brand, Menu and Store Design
From “Big Mac’s Makeover: McDonald’s Turned Around”, The Economist, Oct. 14, 2004 IN THE entrance to Hamburger University, the ultra-modern training centre for the world's biggest fast-food operation, Ray Kroc's office has been faithfully reassembled. McDonald's managers have looked to... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Design is Destiny
Site plan for a Wendy's restaurantWhen McDonald's tried to introduce pizza in the early 1990's it flopped spectacularly and predictably.Stores had no ovens. Retrofitting them, even for compact units, was difficult and burdensome.Many independent operators, lacking faith in the concept, refused... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
The Evolution of the Quick Service Restaurant
The Quick Service Restaurant responds to the universal desire for inexpensive and reliable fare that is freshly prepared, portable and ready on demand.People were finding ways to escape the dinner table long before the 4th Earl of Sandwich wrapped dried meat in bread c. 1762 so as not to... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Building the Scaleable Enterprise
Early McDonald's restaurant, circa 1960In 1954 Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, took notice of the restaurants started by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernadino, CA in 1948. McDonald's was a highly focused, highly visible operation, featuring a simple menu (hamburgers, cheeseburgers, French... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
How Does the Elephant in the Room Like Your Lapel Pin?
Charles Gibson, ABC NewsSometimes a problem is so big that everyone is afraid to discuss it. The aggregate liability of the U.S. government, the National Debt, has reached such staggering proportion that officials only discuss it in its parts, lest voters recognizing its massive scale should... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
No Time for Panic
Illustration by Brian ReaIn his recent column, The Economy of Fear, John Cassidy makes an excellent case that the U.S. is headed for an awful economic outcome. He compares the current economic situation with others caused by credit crunches over the past 150 years and does not like what he sees.... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
What is the Extended Enterprise?
The "Extended Enterprise" is a loosely coupled, self-organizing network of firms that combine their economic output to provide product and service offerings to the market. Firms in the extended enterprise may operate independently or cooperatively.Alternatively referred to as a "supply chain" or... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
