A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided “office lean” effort at a British government office. Read more about it. The picture below is…
GM agrees to change robot suicide ad after objections – Feb. 9, 2007 GM has bowed to pressure from suicide prevention groups, but still doesn’t see anything wrong with firing a robot for making a mistake. Please check out my…
The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing The manufacturing prize winners have been announced. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , ,…
StuderGroup – Conversations with Quint Studer Another great discussion from Quint Studer’s management blog (I hate to call it a “healthcare blog” because that might keep you manufacturing leaders away). Here is a direct link to a post called “What…
Business Week I don’t think the Danaher story is such a secret to those of us in the Lean world, but Business Week has discovered them, from the article: Danaher Corp. (DHR ) is not nearly as big, famous, or…
GM sticking with robot suicide ad criticized by group – CNN For different reasons than the reasons why I didn’t like the ad, but groups are attacking the “suicidal robot” ad for being insensitive. I still can’t believe that GM…
Minot Daily News Before any of the “fake lean” companies out there get any lousy ideas, let’s discuss this. No, I’m not being paranoid, this isn’t keeping me up at night. But, it’s scary / amusing that companies would think…
JAL boss puts job on the line | FT business | The Australian JAL is planning on using the Toyota Production System as part of their turnaround. I’ve written before about United’s lean efforts, so maybe JAL can learn from…
By Luke Van Dongen: Name of Book: Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvements Authors: George Alukal & Anthony Manos Publication Date: 2006 Reviewed By: Luke Van Dongen, February 2007 Book description: what’s the key message? This book is…
Century Sign Builders is a Lean, green machine – MSNBC.com Here is a nice case study news story about a small sign making company that has used Lean, working with the New Mexico MEP program, to help grow their business.…
Quite some time ago, I wrote an article titled Getting Lean Right. I included a quote from someone which I did not have a reference for. I thought it was an important point to share, but I recently got an…
Throughout my travels, I continue to be frustrated with the lack of creative thinking that is going into lean transformation strategies. I was recently shared a story from within a company where a “leadership” award had been presented to a…
