All tagged pull
The last leg of the supply chain in many systems is the retail store, where the ultimate pull happens: a customer buys the product. Theory of Constraints applied in retail seeks to ensure the right product at the right place at the right time, so that the retailer can continue to stay in business.
Interesting video from Mary Poppendieck on The Tyranny of "The Plan". It's full of good anecdotes and a couple of great examples of how planning could really work, instead of they way it usually (doesn't) work today.
To create change we have to move people to a new way of acting with each other (behaviors). The concept behind Viral Change is to make those behaviors infection: spread, copy, reinforce, and spread more.
John Hagel spoke this evening about his new book, The Power of Pull, at the Berkman Center. I took a boatload of notes and this is the result of that.