JS Online: Manufacturing outlook dips, but index is still strong: When I saw this headline (also a WSJ article today), I expected to read something like this: “‘On profits, I think what you are seeing is pressure coming from higher…
The Register This isn’t really a “lean” story, but the idea of customer focus strikes me here. As a company, how do you handle things when customers can so openly communicate with each other on the internet? Customers were complaining…
WSJ.com – Requires Subscription As Toyota grows, they are struggling with finding/keeping enough people who truly understand TPS tools and the Toyota Way. I’ll try to find a “free” version of this article but here are a few highlights (trust…
The Kinston Free Press Here is a nice little local story about a small (26 employees) company that started with lean (sounds like they did some training and a 5-day kaizen event to improve their production line). It’s always interesting…
WSJ.com – Requires Subscription: In an article that talks about Toyota’s lead (along with Honda) in hybrid vehicles, Toyota’s new President references Kaizen. “Mr. Watanabe said Toyota, through its storied manufacturing system of kaizen, or continuous improvement, can reduce by…
Marshall Loeb’s Daily Money Tip – General News – Personal Finance First off, are you reading this at work? ;-) This has been in the news the past few days and all of the blame seems to be pointed at…
EMS Consulting Here is another newsletter article from EMS Consulting and Darren Dolcemascolo, a friend of this blog. His article reminds me of my days at GM, in an engine plant. Our plant had studied a Toyota engine plant and…
Management & Marketing: Since we were talking about “lean software” yesterday…. I’m not an expert on Toyota history so I can’t validate every assumption made in this article. If you can, please click “Comments” below and let us know what…
Free Career Journal Link — new link for July 12 This article talks about Chinese manufacturing companies not in the context of cheap labor, but in the context of management skill. Most successful Chinese companies are the result of turning…
Steve Hebert’s Development Blog Keeping with the lean software theme, here is another in-depth post with references to other lean software websites, articles, and whitepapers. “Agile” development, along with another methodology called “Extreme Programming” are other lean-type methodologies that try…
Darrell Norton’s Blog [MVP] We’ve had “lean healthcare day” before, maybe today is “lean software day.” A recent visitor to this blog is a software developer and pointed me to some resources on applying lean methods and principles to software…
Productivity Press I’ve mentioned this lean “business novel” before. I’m linking to this ad for the book because I was quoted in an email marketing campaign that Productivity Press sent out about the book. I do believe that the book…
