October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
227 pages
5h 8m
English

Multi-Department Store Whitewashes the Past
It was hammered home to me that genius might be 20% of an idea, but implementation is 80%. This assignment demonstrated a tried-and-tested technique that made things happen
The client company was a major retailer in the city and had been for the past hundred years. They operated a city store and three suburban stores, employing 64 buyers for 64 departments staffed in turn by 2,000 employees.
As agreed upon between the company and a senior consultant, my assignment was to improve the goods flow throughout the main city store. Goods were offloaded from trucks at the basement Receiving Room from a lane ...