Monthly Archives: August 2007
Don’t Blame Lean for Part Shortages
Part Shortages Mean Even Longer Delays
First, as a refresher course, here's my take on why Dell is not a Toyota Production System company. ...
Communists Hate Lean
Political Affairs Magazine - High-tech Capitalism and the Class Struggle:
You might not want to click on the above link if you don't want to...
Democrats at the "Gemba"
Clinton gets close-up glimpse of nurse's life - USATODAY.comIt's probably all just political posturing, but Hillary Clinton recently spent two hours shadowing and observing...
Stop Demotivating Me, Lean Style
CIO Magazine Article
Hat tip to Curious Cat for finding this and blogging about it first. I couldn't resist chiming in. The author...
Profile of ThedaCare’s CEO
John Toussaint, M.D. - ProfileFrom the University of Iowa alumni site, here's a nice Q&A with one of the leading advocates for Lean in...
Another Case of Wasting $$ and Angering Your Customer
How many trees did your iPhone bill kill? - USATODAY.com
As with my petty hotel complaints, here's another example of a company doing "too much"...
An Error Proofing Challenge
How would you error proof this material handling / logistics situation? I have a few ideas, but thought this would make for interesting discussion....
Hotel Housekeeping Overprocessing, Waste, and Customer Annoyance
I'll try to lighten things back up a bit. I may have written about this before, but as a frequently traveling consultant, the hotel...
Management’s Job is to be Proactive
Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report
The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management's job is prediction. Statistical process control was...
Some Latest Writing
Although I haven't been posting in the blog recently (sorry), I have been doing some writing, and thought I would share some of that...
Let’s Hope They Don’t Name the Grey Paint Color "Lead"
China's Chery Car: Safe At Any Speed For U.S. Market? - CNBC.comI had a number of readers email me this crash test video of...
Lean Airport Lines?
Case of the Vanishing Airport Lines - WSJ.comThis article made me think of Lean in the sense that Alaska Air radically rethought the passenger...
