www.dailysouthtown.com/: Here is a nice example of a Chicago-area company using lean to respond to the market, which is forcing prices downward. To keep profits up, they’ll have to reduce costs and lean is obviously a great way to do…
Toyota-GM factory faces possible strike: It will be interesting to see if Toyota would ever walk away from NUMMI, even as (or because) they are building more plants of their own throughout North America.“The plant has a strong track record…
TOM WALSH: DCX shifts into future LaSorda’s challenge: Keep up momentum Chrysler’s Tom LaSorda, a “plant rat” turns CEO Tom LaSorda, a former GM guy who moved to DCX, has been named Chrysler Group president and chief executive. It’s nice…
WSJ.com – Workers of Europe Innovate (subscription required) Great article in the WSJ today about a company in France that sounds like it’s doing many “lean” things without invoking Toyota. The leader of this company says, in part: Most businesses,…
Curious Cat Management Improvement – including economics, investment and more: New Toyota CEO’s Views The Curious Cat blog found a Business Week article with quotes from Toyota’s CEO. As they pointed out, how true this quote is: “Management has to…
Runner’s Web and Triathlete’s Web, a Running, Track and Field and Triathlon Resource Portal I don’t know how much this swimmer has studied lean, but I like his comments on swimming. They can apply to lean anywhere! “1. Working hard…
Driving to work today, I saw a new Nissan Z with the Arizona license plate “KAIZEN”. I couldn’t see who was driving (the way we all have to tint our windows here thanks to the sun), but the driver did…
New York Times Without getting into politics (is Toyota growing in Canada because of their education and health care systems, as proposed by Krugman), when reading this something struck me about this “Canada vs. Alabama” argument that came up a…
TIME.com: 10 Questions for Jeff Bezos — Aug. 01, 2005: “HERE’S A QUESTION YOU PROBABLY HEAR ALL THE TIME: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY? [Laughs.] I read a book recently about Toyota’s lean production methodology, which is very interesting.” This…
Detroit News – 07/22/05 This really is a complex issue, the China currency pegging. It’s not just a China vs. U.S. issue, but within the U.S. it’s also a Automakers vs. High Tech issue. The Detroit News article points out…
Curious Cat Management Improvement The Deming-focused blog, Curious Cat, has comments on an earlier article I posted about Toyota and GM. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by…
Six Sigma Blog The Six Sigma Blog has a link to a review of the Michael George book, Lean Six Sigma for Service. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is…
