New book from the LEI
New Hybrid Book Takes a ‘Novel’ Approach to Strategy Deployment: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Has anyone read the new book from the Lean Enterprise Institute? They are sending me a copy that I hope to review in the near…
Month December 2006
More on Toyota’s Jump to #1
Not breaking news, but more article about Toyota’s expected leap to #1 in global auto sales in 2007. The NY Times and the International Herald Tribune both chimed in. All quotes below are from the IHT article. Toyota Motor said…
Hyundai’s Definition of Quality
Business Week Article by Mike Lopez Business Week ran an article about some of Hyundai’s recent problems. One of them seems to be a misguided quality program. Although the article says that, In recent years, no other major automaker has…
Great Post on Evolving Excellence
The Idiot Grinch of Fake Lean I know a lot of you probably also read the Evolving Excellence blog, but be sure to check out this post. Kevin Meyer’s doing his best to channel the outrage we usually get from…
Why Quota for Nurses Isn’t Cure-All
WSJ Article ($) | Free Version of Article Thanks to Dan Markovitz for pointing this article out to me a few days ago: At IHI’s patient-safety conference today in Orlando, Fla., Ms. Rutherford is presenting an alternative to ratios: a…
Appointments and Wasting the Customer’s Time
No, I’m not complaining about the old “4 hour window” for service appointments. I ran into a new type of waste this morning. I had a plumber appointment, with a 10 to 12 noon window (which I am OK with).…
Financiers Discover that Manufacturing Lives
How Financiers Pursue Profit At Skidding Auto-Parts Maker Here’s another article in the WSJ’s “Wow, we still build stuff here” series (my unofficial title). This article talks about how private equity firms (including Wilbur Ross) are putting money into auto…
Last Day for the Challenges Contest
Today is the last day to enter the contest, see more details here. If you’d like to enter, you have until 5 PM central time. Happy Holidays! We have winner (12/27) Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org…
"Tag" – 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
StartupGarden: Tag in the Blogosphere OK, this is not Lean related, but I try to show a little personality around here once in a while. My friend, and fellow blogger, Tom Ehrenfeld, was pulled into a blogger game of “publish…
Lean and Green
Sir Richard Branson: Making the Skies Green – Enterprise Management – MSNBC.com Thanks to blog reader Marc for sending this my way. He points out the parallel between waste elimination (a typical lean concept) and the environmental push to reduce…
Lean Guns, Again
12/18/2006 – Smith & Wesson Buys Thompson/Center Arms – Outdoors – Chattanoogan.com: Yesterday, it was the maker of Ruger firearms… today it’s Smith & Wesson acquiring a company and claiming that is lean manufacturing expertise will create value: “… the…
I’m Not Always Right…
I don’t claim to always be right here on the Blog (or in general). Sometimes I throw ideas out there and I learn in the process. I’ve always said that I’ve learned a ton in the process of writing this…
