Monthly Archives: February 2007
Carnival of Posts from the Lean Blogosphere
I'm down with the flu (and stuck out of town in a hotel room after an attempted early trip home was canceled due to...
Toyota and "Gung Ho"
Why Toyota Is Afraid Of Being Number One
In this Business Week piece about Toyota's fear of a backlash against them, with their continued success,...
Intel, Motion Develop Tablet PC for Nurses – WSJ.com
Intel, Motion Develop Tablet PC for Nurses - WSJ.comMore news stories via Google.Is this a "siren song" of technology for healthcare? Executives and...
Interview about Lean Software
InfoQ: InfoQ Interview: Mary and Tom Poppendieck on using Lean for Competitive AdvantageOn the page above is the intro to a video interview with...
Would Lean Work in Small MD Practices?
medinnovationblog: Systematic Innovation in U.S. Health Care: Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Method and Its Application to Health CareA post here from the "medinnovationblog" site. ...
SPC and Lean
Got a question yesterday from Eric Christiansen, my guest for episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast.
He asked:
Can a company be considered a lean company...
Another Sad Example of Gaming the System: Validation Engineering
Back to my original post about gaming the system, there are three ways people can respond to pressure to improve:
They can work to improve...
GM Got Gamed (Or, How to Fudge Your Production Numbers to Keep the Boss...
Following up on my post about my recent experience with metrics and processes being distorted (and my less-than-perfect Lean coaching efforts), I was thinking...
Lean Q&A
A few of you may know that a couple weeks ago I did a webcast for Industry Week. For those of you attended, thank...
We Got Gamed (Lab Specimen Batch Sizes)
A somewhat recent experience prompted me to re-read portions of Donald Wheeler's outstanding book, Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, with its section...
NY Times Magazine on Toyota – Part 2
From 0 to 60 to World Domination - New York TimesMore from Sunday's long NY Times piece...We're used to Jeff Liker saying good things...
WSJ Readers Beating up on GM
Dream Cars: Made-to-Order Line Could Restore Pride in American Autos - WSJ.comThe WSJ published a group of letters critical of GM in response to...
