I realize that I’m not doing well on personal inventory management when I’m sending out Mothers Day cards with Christmas stamps! At least that’s just a few bucks worth of inventory the drawer. I don’t send “snail mail” much anymore,…
WSJ.com – Mom, Apple Pie and…Toyota? Ford and it’s “Way Forward” leader, Mark Fields, have been trying to wrap the company in the U.S. flag and patriotism. “Americans really do want to buy American brands,” asserted Ford Executive Vice President…
The Evolving Excellence blog posted a video showing radar of FedEx planes flying into Memphis with a thunderstorm approaching. Funny video. I thought I would get into the act (keeping up with the Meyers and Waddells). This video is a…
Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own – New York Times I don’t know if Intel’s CEO uses the corporate jet as his own, like other CEO’s do. But, that’s one place I would look to start cutting costs…
To reduce errors, hospitals use innovative designs This article appeared Monday in the Wall St Journal, it reminded me of Jamie’s postings on lean factory design. Facility layout and design, while not the only driver of lean practices, definitely plays…
A better tool to fight rising health costs? – The Boston Globe From a lean perspective, you have to admire any sincere efforts to help improve quality and efficiency in healthcare. As a country, we can’t afford double-digit cost increases…
AP Wire | 05/10/2006 | Toyota’s quarterly profit jumps 39 percent Quarterly business update on Toyota, including some executive changes. Just about the only recent trouble Toyota has encountered is a $190 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed last week against…
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Wall St. Journal (free via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Here is an interesting article on the very manual efforts at AT&T to balance supply (phone circuit capacity) with calling demand. Mothers Day, this Sunday, is the traditional busiest calling day of the…
Buffalo News – Auto plant thrives in Buffalo (Buffalo, West Virginia, that is) It amazes me that people are still “discovering” Toyota. Good article, I won’t comment much other than to point out this interesting quote: “Analysts said Toyota is…
South Bend Tribune Conn-Selmer is still on strike. A comment added today, on an earlier post, said the company is having a job fair to, presumably, hire replacement workers. It sounds like the strike was caused, at least partly, over…
FORTUNE: CEO pay: They didn’t earn it – and should return it – May. 2, 2006 I know this is a lean blog, not CEO watch, but I can’t help pointing out this article from Fortune. CEO’s love to talk…
