Paul Myerson is managing partner at Logistics Planning Associates, LLC (www.psiplanner.com), a supply chain planning software and consulting business. He also serves as an adjunct professor at several universities, including Kean University and New Jersey City University. He is the author of a Lean Supply Chain & Logistics Management (McGraw-Hill, 2012), developer of a Windows-based supply chain planning software, and co-author of a lean supply chain and logistics management simulation training game by ENNA.
This would be valid if only colleagues could interact. I have seen many workplaces in large organizations where only management can interact. All infomation must flow through managers. To make it worse the work layout does not support interactions. ... If you want the benefits of co-location you have to have the right management structure and the right physical structure!!!
By alexander.keenan@kroger.com on Feb. 26, 2013