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Waste in Collecting Tolls
TxDOT to motorists: Pay up even if tolls are tiny I’ve heard economists say that tolls roads are a very inefficient way of collecting taxes (you have to build tollbooths and hire people to collect tolls, etc.). Gas taxes, vehicle…
Quality is Free in Healthcare?
Hospital cost, quality are at odds In the manufacturing world, the old “mass production” thinking said there was a tradeoff in cost and quality, that high quality must inherently cost more to produce (due to more inspections, high quality materials,…
Revolutionizing Manufacturing with Software: A Discussion on Lean Principles with Dave Gleditsch – LeanBlog Podcast #14
LeanBlog Podcast #14 is a discussion with Dave Gleditsch, the Chief Technology Officer for Pelion Systems, a leading provider of software for lean manufacturing applications. I first met Dave after I read his Industry Week columns and traded some emails…
Ford’s Mulally meets with Toyota
NY Times: Ford and Toyota Chiefs Met in Tokyo MSNBC: Ford’s Mulally signals co-operation with Toyota In the NY Times today… apparently they fired up Mark Fields’ private jet and flew off to Japan last week to meet with Toyota…
More on Mulally’s First Impressions as the New CEO of Ford Motor
Here’s what jumped out at me from Friday’s WSJ articles on Alan Mulally: his “war room” and his “first impressions.” (both articles require paid WSJ subscriptions, I believe). The free version of the war room article is here. In the…
Great Post on Evolving Excellence
The Idiot Grinch of Fake Lean I know a lot of you probably also read the Evolving Excellence blog, but be sure to check out this post. Kevin Meyer’s doing his best to channel the outrage we usually get from…
Appointments and Wasting the Customer’s Time
No, I’m not complaining about the old “4 hour window” for service appointments. I ran into a new type of waste this morning. I had a plumber appointment, with a 10 to 12 noon window (which I am OK with).…
Financiers Discover that Manufacturing Lives
How Financiers Pursue Profit At Skidding Auto-Parts Maker Here’s another article in the WSJ’s “Wow, we still build stuff here” series (my unofficial title). This article talks about how private equity firms (including Wilbur Ross) are putting money into auto…
Last Day for the Challenges Contest
Today is the last day to enter the contest, see more details here. If you’d like to enter, you have until 5 PM central time. Happy Holidays! We have winner (12/27) Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org…
"Tag" – 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
StartupGarden: Tag in the Blogosphere OK, this is not Lean related, but I try to show a little personality around here once in a while. My friend, and fellow blogger, Tom Ehrenfeld, was pulled into a blogger game of “publish…
Lean and Green
Sir Richard Branson: Making the Skies Green – Enterprise Management – MSNBC.com Thanks to blog reader Marc for sending this my way. He points out the parallel between waste elimination (a typical lean concept) and the environmental push to reduce…
