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Re: This is The Best Article on LEGO Group I Have Read
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Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:01:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> ...I missed the part that explained the color
> change. Can someone quote that?
OK.
> But Mads Nipper, the company's chief of product innovation, worked
> closely with Bali Padda, who oversees the supply chain, to devise a series
> of day-to-day solutions to the paradox of constraints. Nipper and Padda
> recommended slicing the palette of roughly 100 colors in half. They also
> recommended cutting back on the thousands of different police officers,
> pirates, and other figures in production. The team took a deliberate
> approach, building on the resin-sourcing work to analyze the true costs of
> each element and identify those whose costs were out of line with the rest
> of the stock. This initiative, coupled with the resin pilot, helped the Lego
> Group cut its resin costs in half and shrink its supplier roster by 80
> percent.
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> At the same time, the operational team put a process in place to help
> designers make more cost-effective choices. Team members devised basic rules
> regarding the creation of new colors and shapes and spelled out the
> requirements for ordering new materials. They also created a cost matrix,
> clearly showing the price associated with each change. Once the costs of
> innovation were clear, designers were urged to use existing elements in new
> ways, rather than devise new elements requiring new molds and colors. The
> initiative encouraged the designers to think in terms of price trade-offs
> when they were developing a new item: Yes, you can give sparkling amber eyes
> to your new Bionicle space alien action figure, but it may limit your
> choices on its claws.
There you go.
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Still no answer, but the new piece rule is nice to hear
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| (...) Hmmm, I thought this might be the passage in question, but I don't see how this paragraph infers any connection between the new resin pilot program and its effect on the remaining colors. The only possible explanation that I can imagine is (...) (17 years ago, 22-Sep-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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