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Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:32:59 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, David Eaton wrote:

SNIP

   From what I’ve heard, Lego sounds sort of top-heavy. Probably part of why > MegaBloks can compete so well -- a top-heavy company has lots of executive chains and processes to go through to get a final product. And Lego’s attention to detail and struggle to be “the best” only make it slower. MegaBloks by comparison probably has a MUCH faster turnaround time for new products, and less attention to quality, which is (I’d guess) where the REAL savings are.

DaveE

surprise-overpaid upper mananagement cutting labor to save costs. we can still have the best product without keeping the perception that more management is better.

Jeff



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  Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
 
(...) It's really easy to look at it that way, but the evidence suggests otherwise. I cited a few press releases (URL) elsewhere> in this thread, most of which dealt with layoffs. Within a month of announcing 161 production layoffs last year in (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)

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(...) Supposedly, it's around 7 seconds to cool and eject a new element from the mold (obviously differs according to piece size, etc). So if you count injection time, it's probably around 10 seconds or so? And I believe the number of elements (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)

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