Comments on: A Nearly Apocalyptic Workaround? http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Welch http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5747 Mark Welch Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:02:08 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2009/11/a-nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5747 Andy, <br /><br />Maybe we should have cut McNamara some slack. Maybe he was just beginning Lean and saw "One Bomber/One Bomb" as one-piece-flow :-)<br /><br />Just kidding. A little tongue-in-cheek humor. Andy,

Maybe we should have cut McNamara some slack. Maybe he was just beginning Lean and saw "One Bomber/One Bomb" as one-piece-flow :-)

Just kidding. A little tongue-in-cheek humor.

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]]> By: Jeromy Timmer http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5745 Jeromy Timmer Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:51 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2009/11/a-nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5745 The USSR was worried about officers launching strikes because they mistook a flock of geese for a U.S. attack. Their solution: Build a doomsday device. That way the officers with twitchy trigger fingers could rest easier that nuclear Armageddon would take place after their demise. Would that be a Poka-Yoke?<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all The USSR was worried about officers launching strikes because they mistook a flock of geese for a U.S. attack. Their solution: Build a doomsday device. That way the officers with twitchy trigger fingers could rest easier that nuclear Armageddon would take place after their demise. Would that be a Poka-Yoke?

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all

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]]> By: Mark Graban http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5741 Mark Graban Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:35:18 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2009/11/a-nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5741 Andy - what a great (I mean sad) example of "gaming the numbers" to give the manager what he's looking for. Different type of workaround, something that also often exists in most organizations where managers don't look at process and they don't go to the gemba. Andy – what a great (I mean sad) example of "gaming the numbers" to give the manager what he's looking for. Different type of workaround, something that also often exists in most organizations where managers don't look at process and they don't go to the gemba.

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]]> By: Andy Wagner http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5740 Andy Wagner Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:33:13 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2009/11/a-nearly-apocalyptic-workaround/#comment-5740 Father of the Edsel, McNamara is the epitome of the non-gemba manager.<br />In Vietnam he tracked progress by counting aircraft sorties. Short on bombs, the Air Force flew a dozen aircraft with one bomb each instead of reducing the number aircraft and flying a full load. Father of the Edsel, McNamara is the epitome of the non-gemba manager.
In Vietnam he tracked progress by counting aircraft sorties. Short on bombs, the Air Force flew a dozen aircraft with one bomb each instead of reducing the number aircraft and flying a full load.

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