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		<title>The Origins of Just-In-Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, the students in my ISAT 654 (Advanced Technology Management) class at JMU asked about where and when Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing actually started in the United States. Although I still can&#8217;t identify the FIRST company to adopt this approach, I was also curious about how the adoption of JIT in the US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=871&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Converted to OrderTopianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was really a fantastic day for me. In addition to starting it off right with a total solar eclipse at 2:11am ET, January 15th will go down in history as the first time I placed an order using OrderTopia. It will definitely not be the last time! OrderTopia is a social, cloud-based ordering system [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=809&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quality and the Great Contraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the July 6, 2009 issue of Business Week: “A new world order is dawning – one in which the West is no longer dominant, capitalism (at least the American version) is out of favor, and protectionism is on the rise… the era of laissez-faire economics is over, and statism, once discredited, is making a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=755&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspection, Abstraction and Shipping Containers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my drive home tonight, a giant “Maersk Sealand” branded truck passed me on the highway. It got me thinking about the innovation of the shipping container, and how introducing a standard size and shape revolutionized the shipping industry and enabled a growing global economy. At least that’s the perspective presented by Mark Levinson in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=472&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supply Chains and Supply Networks</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2008/11/13/supply-chains-and-supply-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supply chains aren’t actually linear chains, but socio-technical systems that can be expressed as networks. In an October 2004 article in DM World, a data management magazine, Dennis Ladd expressed it well: Today&#8217;s competitive, fast-moving business environment has irrevocably changed the supply chain and the management of its functions as we know it. The traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=349&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shocks to the System: Financial Meltdown and a Fragile Supply Chain</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2008/10/12/shocks-to-the-system-financial-meltdown-and-a-fragile-supply-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just-In-Time (JIT) practices are a cornerstone of the fast-paced, 21st century globalized economy. But as the October 2008 financial meltdown has so starkly indicated, when just a few of the assumptions on which a critical system is based change, all hell can break loose. What effect could the economic crisis have on businesses that rely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=47&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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