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WEMO founders cede management to HAHN Group

Logistics Business Magazine

As part of this, WEMO will move to the Robotics Division within the HAHN Group in order to offer its customers an even broader portfolio of solutions and products with mobile and collaborative robotics. Already in 2015, the HAHN Group took over the majority of the company’s shares, and finally all of them.

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The Red Pill: The (Slow Yet Steady) Revolution in Global Freight Digitization

Freightos

But, of course, when dealing with systems that operate at such scale, exceptions happen. I can’t export maritime incident data from the US Coast Guard (which could use some tech) but based on this report there were 18 bridge allisions in the United States between 1960 and 2015. It’s the gritty reality of logistics.

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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. Tim spun off AscendTMS and bought it from Palm Beach Capital on January 1st, 2015. Tim is the CEO of AscendTMS, the world’s most popular TMS software, with over 56,197 customers in over 30 countries. AscendTMS). The 3PL was sold in 2014.

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It’s Hard to Learn if you Already Know

The Lean Thinker

In this TED Talk, Amy Edmondson of the Harvard Business School talks about “How to turn a group of strangers into a team.” Although long-standing teams are able to perform, our workplaces today require ad-hoc collaboration between diverse groups. Of course, just sending an invitation doesn’t mean people come to the party.

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Toyota Kata and Culture Change

The Lean Thinker

When we study “culture” we are looking at the groups’ default patterns of interaction. It is even harder when you are talking about group behavior vs. simply individuals. Actually the message of “adaptive leadership” has been present since at least the first KataCon back in 2015. Whose Work Is It?

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Diess to lead VW Group while Blume heads production

Automotive Logistics

As part of an extensive revision of VW Group’s management structure, Herbert Diess (pictured) is taking over from Matthias Müller as chairman of the board. Diess will also be responsible for VW Group development and research, as well as Vehicle IT.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. Needless to say, the guy didn’t have a lot of credibility with the group, as this was pretty normal behavior. This, of course, is consistent with the message that we Kata Geeks are sending with Mike Rother’s Coaching Kata.