Also from the August issue of Assembly Magazine is my latest column of Leading Lean. The topic this month is the key issue of observing. I believe the true ability to observe is a under appreciated topic in lean. Sure…
Here is an article from Assembly Magazine by Adam Cort about Boeing’s Dreamliner called Living the Dream. Boeing has been working on lean for a long, long time. For quite a while, there was little to show for it. But…
Although my book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road, is very much about lean, I particularly enjoy finding lessons on lean from books that having nothing to do with lean. I’ve already shared some lessons from two…
Few would argue that lean is about an journey to the ideal state, towards perfection. It’s a continuous, never ending journey. This is quite dated, but since it was before the blog, I’ve never written about it. I wrote a…
By Jamie Flinchbaugh Mark recently posted about Building Near Your Customers. Here’s another reason – your product might end up at the bottom of the sea. Check out what’s happened to 5,000 cars on their way to the Vancouver. I…
There are many books that are not at all about lean, but the lessons they contain are very helpful to a lean journey. Here’s one such example: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell While this The New Yorker writer has…
Getting lean right is more than just ideas. Here’s an article on demand stream mapping that I was actually interviewed for. Don’t know what that is? Well, here’s the crux of the article that I believe gets it wrong: But…
I know that you can say whatever you want in the press, particularly if you’re trying to sell this, but I couldn’t believe I read this: I had a feeling as I went into this that people had reached their…
There are many books that are not at all about lean, but the lessons they contain are very helpful to a lean journey. Here’s one such example: Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni While the creativity and storytelling in most…
Here’s one blogger adding speculation to the fire (speculation is a very flammable fuel, if you didn’t know). I find this line amusing: we have a hard enough time imagining an alliance between GM andNissan Our brains hurt trying to…
A couple months ago, Mark commented on the unraveling of the mystery of Raytheon’s Swanson’s The Unwritten Rules of Management. This book got incredible press on how many people liked it, including Warren Buffett. As I liked to do, the…
SME’s Manufacturing Engineering magazine has a very special annual feature called the Masters of Manufacturing. This year they have selected Joseph Engelberger, considered the “Father of Robotics.” Consider where our manufacturing world would be today without some of the basics…
