Enabling Growth in a Middle-Market Job Shop Environment
No single playbook can be a universal template for success. Each corporation is a living entity, complete with a history, context, culture, market, and group of people that make it up. Understanding the needs of the business now, with an eye to the goals it seeks to later accomplish, is critical to...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146704 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4585-0880 |
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| description | No single playbook can be a universal template for success. Each corporation is a living entity, complete with a history, context, culture, market, and group of people that make it up. Understanding the needs of the business now, with an eye to the goals it seeks to later accomplish, is critical to developing a tailored approach and being an effective leader.
This research explores a series of initiatives and the interplay amongst them, across four key focus areas at PSI Power & Control, a middle-market job shop that assembles custom electrical distribution and control products for industrial consumers. These areas include data models, inventory & supply chain, production operations, and processes & strategic planning. Optimizing for simple, effective solutions to break down barriers to growth led, in part, to the successful development of live, actionable, and interactive data visualizations; predictive inventory management solutions; visual management operational implementations; and a formal new product design process. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1467042022-12-01T03:45:47Z Enabling Growth in a Middle-Market Job Shop Environment Page, Nicholas Hardt, David Willems, Sean Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Sloan School of Management No single playbook can be a universal template for success. Each corporation is a living entity, complete with a history, context, culture, market, and group of people that make it up. Understanding the needs of the business now, with an eye to the goals it seeks to later accomplish, is critical to developing a tailored approach and being an effective leader. This research explores a series of initiatives and the interplay amongst them, across four key focus areas at PSI Power & Control, a middle-market job shop that assembles custom electrical distribution and control products for industrial consumers. These areas include data models, inventory & supply chain, production operations, and processes & strategic planning. Optimizing for simple, effective solutions to break down barriers to growth led, in part, to the successful development of live, actionable, and interactive data visualizations; predictive inventory management solutions; visual management operational implementations; and a formal new product design process. S.M. M.B.A. 2022-11-30T19:42:26Z 2022-11-30T19:42:26Z 2022-05 2022-08-25T19:15:40.733Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146704 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4585-0880 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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