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Re: New LEGO system for business and strategy development
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Sat, 6 Oct 2001 08:16:36 GMT
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"John Heins" <johnmhiii@aol.com> wrote in message news:GKrJ4o.11D@lugnet.com...
> Ok.......did I just fall asleep for a few months???? Is it April 1 or
> something?
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> I'm an Industrial Engineer, someone who's supposed to make things run better
> - prestigious school, worked for companies large and small, in
> manufacturing, service and governmental at levels that do substantative
> planning..... and I really do have to wonder about this one.
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> I've seen some real ridiculous fads in management, some with more potential
> usefulness than others...TQM, for example, but I do have to wonder about
> this one. Personally, I understand the lost in the wilderness team
> exercises - or paintball wars - more than this one. The closest POSSIBLE
> tie in that I can imagine has to deal with a Sr.E.V.P. who couldn't read
> blueprints and wanted to see a new plant in 3D so he could "visualize" it
> (how he got that far lacking that particular skilll is beyond me but having
> seen some past departmental production line layouts, I do believe he had
> real problems visualizing things).
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> I'm sure that any number of companies will buy into this concept and spend
> endless hours debating whether they are fortresses or race cars and
> such....and in a few cases these sessions may actually produce some useful
> results in "thinking beyond the box" but I expect that in most cases these
> sessions will be little more than some executive's fad of the moment, where
> underlings seriously "yes" the higher-up's to death and pretend to have
> found some useful results from these sessions. Unfortunately, the time
> spent on this and other similar exercises is often better spent in
> understanding business basics.
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> I hope TLC will continue to post the companies using this approach so I can
> short their stock. Personally I can't wait to see what Dilbert will do with
> this.
I have no problem with management fads etc. If companies want to do it that's their affari.
However, I do question Lego's reason for funding this activity in the light of their recent performance.
lawrence
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