Word: containerization
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Managing such a far-flung operation can be messy. On a recent morning in midtown Kansas City, Obama's local headquarters was bustling. A team of about 15 staffers, paid and volunteer, hunched over laptops and cradled cell phones in a bare space provisioned with bags of Lays potato chips...
But this is not meant to be a tourist destination. Each of the new cities will specialize in specific industrial sectors, where foreign and Saudi businesses are being encouraged to build factories and offices. KAEC's speciality will be plastics - in the masterplan, a large swath of the city is...
What Wright actually envisions is not a Great Wall of proprietary plastic, but fields of much smaller, mass-produced scrubbers, each fitting into a 40-ft.-long (12 m) shipping container. Scatter 20 million of them in remote spots around the world, and you could take care of the emissions...
From these beginnings have emerged two great retailing successes: Mackey's Whole Foods Market is the leading natural-foods supermarket chain; Tindell's Container Store has the storage-and-organization category it invented pretty much to itself. And lately, ceos Mackey and Tindell have reconnected--partly to bask in the...
Mackey and Tindell both started out striving mainly to satisfy customers. What other choice is there for a new business? As their companies grew, the emphasis shifted to employees. Whole Foods and the Container Store pay better than most retailers, offer good benefits and entrust workers at all levels with...