Monthly Archives: November 2005
Book Review: Creating a Lean Culture
A friend gave me a copy of a book he recommended: Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions by David Mann.
Based on...
The incentive ‘Push’ continues
GM announced the start of the next domestic automaker incentive battle with its "Red Tag" sale on Monday. Granted, domestic continue to lose market...
Can You Ignore Your Customers For a Week?
Since I've been moving into "lean healthcare" consulting, I am joining one of the healthcare management societies, analogous to an APICS type organization, I...
Gemba Pantarei Doesn’t Like GM’s "Red Tags"
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei
Jon Miller makes a clever point about the double meaning, to lean people, of "Red Tags"....
Management Guru Peter Drucker, 95, Passes On
Management Guru Peter Drucker, 95, Dies
The influential management thinker, Peter Drucker, has passed on. There are many tributes to him on the web and...
Exclusive Jim Womack Q&A, Part 5
Many thanks, again to Jim Womack, from the Lean Enterprise Institute and the book Lean Solutions, for participating in this special Q&A. This is...
Exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack, Part 4
Here is installment #4 of the Jim Womack Q&A, where we discuss the car buying process, the teaching (or lack thereof) of lean principles...
NUMMI Tour Tales #6: "You Get What You Inspect"
Here is the sixth, and probably final, installment of my tales from the NUMMI tour.
You can revisit them, by starting with Tale #1 and...
Evolving Excellence: Don’t Let Delphi Drag Down the Shingo Prize
Evolving Excellence BlogSome of the most spirited lean discussion is taking place on the Evolving Excellence blog, always a good read. The post I'm...
Jim Womack – Free Lean Solutions Webinar
For those who are interested, Jim Womack will be hosting a free 60 minute Webinar on November 15 at 2pm Eastern Standard Time. Here's...
Funny visual controls example (a bad one)
This Is Broken - Fire escape signs
Here's a great example to use in your training for how NOT to do visual controls. Please check...
Why make it hard to become a customer?
I try not to just vent or complain about personal experiences here, but I'm incredibly frustrated with phone companies. I think a lot of...
