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I’d like to welcome a new sponsor to the Lean Blog: McKinsey & Company and their upcoming “Tune Your Career” event they are holding for selected invitees June 5 to 7 outside of Atlanta. Click here for more information The…
TheStar.com | Drinks | Yeast goes wild in Trappist ale One of my favorite discoveries in the past year is a Belgian “Trappist Ale” called Orval. A friend in Toronto saw this article/review in the local paper and it reminded…
E-Z-GO’s Kevin Holleran 040608 – The Augusta Chronicle On this blog, we often talk about the Lean concept that a company is not entitled to arbitrarily tack on a desired profit margin to their incurred costs (the equation of Price…
Guest Post By Mike Thelen: New Offense Leads Calipari, Memphis Within One Win of National Championship Great article on the Memphis basketball team. Do you see the same Lean structure I see? By nature, coaching is a business of copycats.…
FAA too cozy with airlines, whistle-blowers say | ajc.com As a frequent flyer, it’s really troubling anytime you read about systemic problems in the aviation system. First, there are problems in the air traffic controller world that lead to multiple…
Last year, in a fit of creativity, I coined the awkward term “L.A.M.E.” — Lean As Misguidedly Executed or, alternatively Lean as Mistakenly Executed. Either way, the “Lean vs LAME” construct is easier to swallow than the spelled out acronym.…
The W. Edwards Deming Institute This has to be the best title for a seminar ever: How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business(Many Organizations Do It, But Do You Know How You Do It?) The Deming…
JS Online: Tending to improvements in health care Here’s a nice overview article about the Lean efforts of the ThedaCare health system in Wisconsin. Some highlights: ThedaCare estimates that its work to improve efficiency in 2005 and 2006 cut costs…
Dell to close Austin plant, cutting more than 800 jobs | Statesman Business Blog I’m angry. I try not to blog when I’m angry, so I’ll try to watch my words carefully. Probably won’t succeed. This recent news hits home…
IndustryWeek Article about the Book | Subscribe to IndustryWeek Amazon Link: Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation When I first read this headline, I misread it, thinking it was about the “fear of inventory” (something that seems like a…
By Ralf Lippold, Leipzig Germany: Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking – The Scientific Thinking Mechanism How does it contribute to the lean knowledge base? Shigeo Shingo offers a scientific way to get into Kaizen from a bundle of…
I got this question on the Lean Board, thought it was worth sharing to the bigger audience here. Anyone have any success stories on extremely difficult concrete head operators? I have a couple that just don’t get one piece flow…
