Pushing the Realities of Your Everyday Constraints – Cognitive, Physical, Economical, Social and more…
CEO of California tech company Ali H. Raza Interviews Dr. Domenico Lepore on his podcast focused on Supply Chain management in our age of complexity.
Introduction to this video by Ali Raza, CEO of Throughput.AI
Taylor. Deming. Ohno. Goldratt. Wheeler. Lepore.
For me, that is the “chain” of visionary giants that have transformed the industrial supply chain space in the last 100 years.
It was great to sit down with Dr. Domenico Leporefor the latest episode of the Supply UnChained Podcast.
Title: Pushing the Realities of Your Everyday Constraints – Cognitive, Physical, Economical, Social and more…
What a timely talk, given everybody calls everything a bottleneck now, and the immense variability we are seeing with tariffs (coincidentally with Canada right now).
For those of you who have not read the work Intelligent Management puts out, it is truly the peak of supply chain wisdom.
As I put it, you can spend a 30-year career in supply chain to become a subject matter expert…or you can read Domenico &Angela Montgomery PhD’s work and question what you were doing all this time.
We spoke about:
-Dr. Lepore’s beginnings in Italy, studying solid state physics, and his journey to entrepreneurship
-How he discovered the works of Deming & Goldratt bringing those knowledge bodies together over the last few decades
-How every organization is just one big supply chain (and how the function cannot be optimized by itself)
-How network coordination behavior works and how an enterprise creates value
-The difference between a bottleneck and constraint
-How to manage complexity in enterprises with inherent simplicity
-The power of language to encourage change by challenging pre-existing assumptions and notions
-How modern academia handicaps challenging one’s notions around supply chain realities
-His work with everyone from AI startups to countries, with a spotlight on how he & his disciples are transforming oilfield, football (soccer), andFerrarioperations today
-Getting boards to pick organizational process flow redesign over financial engineering
-How Canada’s Industrial Base is investing in manufacturing, supply chains, and engineering….and what the country will look like 10 years into the future
-Thoughts onNVIDIA,Anthropic, and large organizations
-Thoughts on Private Equity, Boards, CEOs, and more sustainable ways to build companies
-Trade & Tariff Volatility and its ties to Understanding and Managing Variation
-The launch of his new website
-When to engage Intelligent Management & how to reach him
…and much more!
It was truly an honor to sit down with the foremost organizational design mind of our time.
Thank you Dr. Lepore for speaking during your break in Southern Italy to reemphasize how supply chains are based on physics, not finance, and the importance of constantly challenging our assumptions.