Tim Cook and Jeff Williams overseeing the Apple Supply Chain
Apple Supply Chain
Tim Cook and Jeff Williams overseeing the Apple Supply Chain. On December 17, 2015 Apple Named Jeff Williams as Apple’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). This was the same position that Tim Cook (Apple’s current CEO) had before replacing Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO. Since 2010 Jeff Williams oversaw Apple’s entire Supply Chain. This was very similar to how Tim Cook got the COO position, then the CEO position. I thought this may be interesting for anyone in supply chain. Apple puts a huge emphasize on supply chain and the Apple Supply Chain is considered one of the best, if not the best in the world. Steve Jobs brought in Tim Cook to make the Apple Supply Chain more lean and agile. Will be interesting to see if Jeff Williams gets the Apple CEO position in the future. Apple Press info naming Jeff Williams as COO.
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Apple CEO Quotes
- “Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal.” ~ Tim Cook, CEO Apple
- “Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out.” ~ Tim Cook
- “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “I personally admire Steve not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.” ~ Tim Cook
- “We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” ~ Steve Jobs, co-founder Apple Inc.
- “Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.” ~ Steve Wozniak
- “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain… What we will not do – and never have done – is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word.” ~ Tim Cook
- “Apple has changed every day since I have been here. But the DNA of the company, the thing that makes our heart beat, is a maniacal focus on making the best products in the world. Not good products, or a lot of products, but the absolute best products in the world. In creating these great products we focus on enriching people’s lives – a higher cause for the product.” ~ Tim Cook, made huge improvements to the Apple Supply Chain
- “Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.” ~ John Sculley, former CEO Apple
- “I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.” ~ Steve Wozniak, co-founder Apple Inc.
- When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Our idea was that these computers were going to free us and allow us to organize. They were going to empower us. We could sit down and write programs that did more than our company’s programs on their big million-dollar computers did. And little fifth-graders would go into companies and write a better program than the top gurus being paid the top salary, and it was going to turn the tables over. We were excited by this revolutionary talk.” ~ Steve Wozniak
- “The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” ~ John Sculley
