Lean Thinking Network | Competing Podcast » Interview with Pascal Dennis Part 1 Pascal Dennis interview Part 2 – Operations Dwight Bowen, someone I consider a friend of the Lean Blog, has a two-part interview with Pascal Dennis, author of…
By Dan MarkovitzBack in October, Lifehacker ran a lengthy article on “personal kaizen.” The thrust of the piece is how we can improve our lives by adopting the kaizen approach of the TPS and applying it to our own work…
My main point here I think is “Tech Support should NOT be part of the normal process.” I needed to register for an internal company tech support website (for teleconference support) and was trying to log in to the website.…
Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins – New York Times So I’ve finally become a Toyota driver, driving an employer-provided Prius for over a month now. Answer to the first question I usually get, 42.9 MPG is…
Press Named to Toyota Board – The Car Connection Toyota’s Gary Convis, a leader who I have admired greatly, is retiring in June: Toyota also announced that Gary Convis will retire in June from his positions as a managing officer…
Comprehensive Drug & Alcohol Treatment Facility is First of its Kind in the State Former classmate and blog reader Chris and I always used to joke about “PDCA-ing your life.” Maybe it’s not that funny, but we were at MIT.…
asahi.com : Toyota to name first foreign director Congratulations to Jim Press: Toyota Motor Corp., seeking to add an international flavor to its management, will appoint a foreign national to its board of directors for the first time, sources said…
I know the WSJ is making a joke and satirizing it, but here’s a classic example of non-Lean management to share. How would a “Lean Dog” involve the sheep? :-) Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The…
Article Link Thanks to Ron for sending this article my way. Check out his excellent blog post on the difference between being fast and “playing fast,” tying the football idea to manufacturing (although I’m hoping my Wildcats can finally beat…
Business Report – Toyota production system has the cure for the industry’s ills Much of the material in this summary, by a professor who teaches a Lean course, has been covered on this blog before, but it’s a nice summary…
Episode #22 of the Podcast is a discussion with Allan Wilson, CEO of Factory Logic, a software company that was acquired by SAP late last year. Allan is now the VP of Lean Manufacturing Operations for SAP. We talk about…
IndustryWeek : Ranking Continuous Improvement Methods According to a recent survey of 745 companies, 40.5% of them say they are using Lean as a continuous improvement strategy. The number is higher if you include “Lean Six Sigma,” “Agile manufacturing,” and…