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Exploring COVID-19 and Just-in-Time Supply Chains, Chaos Engineering, and the Soviet Centrally Planned Economy with Dr. Steve Spear

The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution

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Just in Time Systems - And the Factory Fire

In 19 97, everyone said that a factory fire in Japan would prove the fragility of just in time systems. But within three days toilt is back in production and within a week it's back in full production. How can you run a system which is such low inventory, suffer the catastrophic loss of the only supplier in the entire world for that part, and recover within a few days? The answer is, and geni back to our, you know, our theme here of a distributed and collective intelligence. This is richardsonian ishis is that extreme delegation in your own plant,.Regardless of what it does, whether it makes sewing machines or prototype parts, get with your people and

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