Marc Levinson on Shipping Contain...
Marc Levinson on Shipping Containers & Lessons for AI

KPI Fireside: A Continuous Improvement Podcast by KPI Fire

Episode notes

What can a steel shipping container teach us about artificial intelligence? More than you would think.

In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Marc Levinson, historian, economist, and author of The Box, the definitive history of the shipping container. Marc formerly served as finance and economics editor at The Economist, an economist at JP Morgan Chase, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

πŸ”» Why standardization is the hardest problem in any major innovation and how the container finally solved it

πŸ”» How a single change in how goods move can hollow out entire cities and create entirely new industries in places nobody expected

πŸ”» What Malcolm McLean's biggest wins and biΒ ...Β 

Read more
Keywords
continuous improvementprocess improvementsupply chain improvementshipping container historyglobalizationstandardizationeconomic disruptioninternational tradetechnology and labor