Running the Race

As companies answer these questions and build their supply chain strategies, it is time to look forward. We can learn from history, but need to forge the path forward to drive differentiation. Before we can run the race, we must train. This training requires behavioral modification in three areas building supply chain agility, learning how to listen and learn, and valuing process innovation. 

To run the race for Supply Chain 2020, companies need to train. Like an athlete training for a competition, the teams need to be agile, to listen to coaching, and to make the right investments. Most organizations need to work on these three behaviors to have the right stuff to win the race. 

The first step is a readiness assessment. The supply chain needs to have strength, agility, and balance. Most do not. 

The focus of the supply chain pioneers over the past 30 years has been on improving strength. In interviews, the supply chain 

An effective supply chain is built for purpose. It is designed with the goal in mind. As companies have implemented global systems, improved the cost structures, and implemented lean programs, the supply chain has become less agile. Today, for many, it is brittle. It is stronger in the middle than at the ends. 

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Throughout the first three decades of supply chain leadership, the greatest advancements in business results were made by companies that could invest in process innovation holistically and cross-function-ally. As we get ready to run the race for Supply Chain 2020, we are at a juncture where process innovation is needed. There is more unknown than known. New data, new technologies, and market changes make process innovation an important element of readiness to run the race. 

The Benton High School girls relay team ran the mile in 6.32 minutes in April. By May, they were able to run the same race in 6.099 minutes. By how many minutes had their time improved ... 

The Problem The contestant from Kenya can run the 10,000-meter race at an average of 6 meters per second. The contestant from Ethiopia has a best time so far of 5.5 meters per second. How far back should the runner from Kenya start to have the expectation that they would cross the finish line at the same time if they both start at the same time ... 

Oxygen Consumption during Exercise A sedentary adult consumes about 0.05 L of 02 in 10 seconds. A sprinter, running a 100 m race, consumes about 1 L of 02 in 10 seconds. After finishing the race, the sprinter continues to breathe at an elevated (but declining) rate for some minutes, consuming an extra 4 L of 02 above the amount consumed by the sedentary individual. 

There was no One, two, three, and away, but they began running when they liked and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 

Just as you don t train to run a marathon by waiting until the last minute and then running twenty miles a day for five days before the race, you cannot effectively prepare for the GRE by waiting until the last minute to study. Your brain works best when you give it a relatively small chunk of information, let it rest and process, and then give it another small chunk. 

Like methanol, ethanol is a good motor fuel, with similar advantages and disadvantages. The race cars at the Indianapolis 500 have used ethanol as their primary fuel since 2006. A car s carburetor must be adjusted (for a richer mixture) and fitted with alcohol-resistant seals if it is to run on pure ethanol. Solutions of about 10% ethanol in gasoline ( gasohol ) work well without any adjustments, however. 

Figure 30.19. Dependence of the Velocity of Running on the Duration of the Race. The values shown are world track records. ... 

My explanation is, of course, unscientific and therefore suspect. But I found myself, that day of the Mile-Hi Ten K run, eagerly trying to discuss my experience with the other runners I wanted desperately to discover where I had been and what I had been doing during the race for which I received my first trophy. I didn t discover the answer from my fellow runners that day, but it didn t matter. I m still running and still feeling the glow—whatever it is. 

All laboratories now have the obligation, not only to develop assays, but to get the assays into the hands of users. Rather than racing to develop new assays, possibly we should judge our success based on our ability to transfer the technology successfully to user laboratories. We routinely send reagents to other laboratories in the field. We try to send these reagents with a detailed protocol as well. Not that this is the best way to run the assay, but it represents a method that will give reliable results in the hands of both experts and neophytes. 

Figure 27.19 Dependence of the velocity of running on the duration of the race.

Many tests can be run on especially designed equipment, but to determine satisfactorily whether there is any CW leakage at the periphery requires human volunteers. Tests were made on all of the races represented in the United... 

A measurement is always reported as a value, a quantitative description that includes both a number and a unit. For example, before a 100-meter race is run, the distance must be measured as precisely as possible. Its value is 100 meters. In this value, the unit is meters (defined below), and the number of units is 100. 

Load the Interactive Computer Module (ICM) The Great Race from the CD-ROM. Run the module and then record your performance miniber for the module, which indicates your mastering of the material. Your professor has the key to decode your performance number. 

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