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By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 18, 2007

Living with the Suboptimal

Launching a new website, front-end store, or product requires several trade-off's. Here are two principles I learned at Amazon that still ring true

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 13, 2007

Process Cycle Efficiency Formula and Example is my attempt to explain a helpful metric. I will do so and provide several examples that I hope you'll

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 10, 2007

Agile and its many flavors take many of their tenets from The Toyota Production System. At Toyota, there is a concept of Obeya, or "The Big Room."

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 7, 2007

This article is about the Amazon Product Development Process: Start with the Customer, and Work Backwards. Amazon is a company that is absolutely

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated February 2, 2007

As business professionals, we take some important business concepts for granted. Today, we'll explore the difference between Productivity and

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 29, 2007

While at Amazon, we were all told by Divine Fiat that ALL PowerPoint Presentations -- regardless of kind, cannot ever be on Powerpoint. Period. No

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 28, 2007

The guys at Gemba Research pointed me to this great video on the Toyota factory in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. This is the opening of the Toyota

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 24, 2007

Yesterday for class, we played the Beer Distribution Game, which is a game developed by the Systems Dynamic Group at MIT back in the early 1960's.

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated January 23, 2007

The 7 Wastes are common and known. But, there are other wastes that are important and less known, but very critical for any business to understand.