There was a huge amount of waste, whether you look at it from the perspective of sheer cost, trees cut, or carbon emitted," Jib El lison, CEO of Blu Skye consulting, told me.
Ellison, who helped convene the group, added, "We find this in most supply chains: they were built in the nineteenth century with a view toward what can be sold, not with sustainability or reducing waste in mind. When one part of the chain optimizes for itself, it tends to suboptimize the whole."
One of the biggest dilemmas was that advertisers paid accord ing to how many magazines their ads appeared in-not how many were sold. But a magazine "in circulation" might just sit on a shelf for weeks or months, and then be pulped. So publishers had to go back to their advertisers and explain a new basi$ for charging them.
The retail chain analyzed which were its best-selling magazines in what stores. It found, for example, that Roadster might sell well in five markets but not at all in another five. The chain was able to adjust where magazines went by where they were wanted. All in all, the various fixes reduced waste by up to 50 percent. This was not only an environmental plus; it also opened shelf space for other products while saving beleaguered publishers money.
Solving such problems takes seeing the systems that are in play. "We look for a systemic problem that no one player can solve-not a person, a government, a company," Ellison tells me. The :first breakthrough in the magazine dilemma was simply getting all these players together-and getting the system into the room.
"Systems blindness is the main thing we struggle with in our work," says John Sterman, who holds the Jay W. Forrester chair at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Forrester, Sterman's mentor, was a founder of systems theory, and Sterman has been the go-to systems expert at MIT for years, directing MIT's Systems Dynamics Group.
There was a huge amount of waste, whether you look at it from the perspective of sheer cost, trees cut, or carbon emitted," Jib El lison, CEO of Blu Skye consulting, told me.
Ellison, who helped convene the group, added, "We find this in most supply chains: they were built in the nineteenth century with a view toward what can be sold, not with sustainability or reducing waste in mind. When one part of the chain optimizes for itself, it tends to suboptimize the whole."
One of the biggest dilemmas was that advertisers paid accord ing to how many magazines their ads appeared in-not how many were sold. But a magazine "in circulation" might just sit on a shelf for weeks or months, and then be pulped. So publishers had to go back to their advertisers and explain a new basi$ for charging them.
The retail chain analyzed which were its best-selling magazines in what stores. It found, for example, that Roadster might sell well in five markets but not at all in another five. The chain was able to adjust where magazines went by where they were wanted. All in all, the various fixes reduced waste by up to 50 percent. This was not only an environmental plus; it also opened shelf space for other products while saving beleaguered publishers money.
Solving such problems takes seeing the systems that are in play. "We look for a systemic problem that no one player can solve-not a person, a government, a company," Ellison tells me. The :first breakthrough in the magazine dilemma was simply getting all these players together-and getting the system into the room.
"Systems blindness is the main thing we struggle with in our work," says John Sterman, who holds the Jay W. Forrester chair at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Forrester, Sterman's mentor, was a founder of systems theory, and Sterman has been the go-to systems expert at MIT for years, directing MIT's Systems Dynamics Group.
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There was a huge amount of waste, whether you look at it from the perspective of sheer cost, trees cut, or carbon emitted," Jib El lison, CEO of Blu Skye consulting, told me.
Ellison, who helped convene the group, added, "We find this in most supply chains: they were built in the nineteenth century with a view toward what can be sold, not with sustainability or reducing waste in mind. When one part of the chain optimizes for itself, it tends to suboptimize the whole."
One of the biggest dilemmas was that advertisers paid accord ing to how many magazines their ads appeared in-not how many were sold. But a magazine "in circulation" might just sit on a shelf for weeks or months, and then be pulped. So publishers had to go back to their advertisers and explain a new basi$ for charging them.
The retail chain analyzed which were its best-selling magazines in what stores. It found, for example, that Roadster might sell well in five markets but not at all in another five. The chain was able to adjust where magazines went by where they were wanted. All in all, the various fixes reduced waste by up to 50 percent. This was not only an environmental plus; it also opened shelf space for other products while saving beleaguered publishers money.
Solving such problems takes seeing the systems that are in play. "We look for a systemic problem that no one player can solve-not a person, a government, a company," Ellison tells me. The :first breakthrough in the magazine dilemma was simply getting all these players together-and getting the system into the room.
"Systems blindness is the main thing we struggle with in our work," says John Sterman, who holds the Jay W. Forrester chair at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Forrester, Sterman's mentor, was a founder of systems theory, and Sterman has been the go-to systems expert at MIT for years, directing MIT's Systems Dynamics Group.
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