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Update 12/17: Click here for part 2 of the Womack podcast. LeanBlog Podcast #12 brings us a special guest, James P. Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute, the author of many books, including the classic (published 10 years ago) Lean…
I’ve been reading the book Managing The Professional Service Firm by David Maister, which is targeted toward the management of professional firms: consulting, law, and finance for example. But, he has a concept that should resonate for any business: “Quality…
Maybe it was karma or fate after I’ve been giving Ford execs a hard time, but I rented a LOUSY Ford Mustang over the weekend. I know rentals get beat up and aren’t representative of what you would buy, but…
Chris Bianco: ‘Pizza has been good to me’ | Operations | Pizza Marketplace I’m back in Phoenix for a few days, a city where I used to live from 2001-2005. My wife and I got back to our favorite restaurant,…
The cover story this week in Business Week is called Smashing the Clock. It is the story of Best Buy’s removal of all expectations of when and where you work. The only thing that matters are the results. I’m not…
We know Dilbert makes fun of Six Sigma, but the new NBC show “30 Rock” does a great job of skewering GE culture (of which NBC is a part) and Six Sigma. 30 Rock is easily the funniest workplace show…
Plant Engineering Plant Engineering magazine has started a blog and they might have suckered me into mentioning their blog by praising this one: The other one that is best kept best up to date is Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, which leans…
Hollywood Report – WSJ.com: I’m not a fan of “The O.C.” but this caught my eye in the WSJ today: “What went wrong at ‘The O.C.’? It’s impossible to pinpoint an exact reason, since TV series aren’t assembly-line products that…
Hi Blog readers — an administrative topic for the blog. I had one of our blog contributors ask about being notified of comments left on the Lean Blog by users. I get an email notification when a comment is posted…
By Luke Van Dongen I am a huge fan of Jim Womack’s ability to identify and describe problems within complex systems simply and absolutely. Womack was a keynote speaker at the conference and used his time to convey his understanding…
Blue-collar exodus brings new challenges – 11/30/06 – The Detroit News Online: UPDATE: In case some of you don’t know my history of writing about how Ford and mass production companies typically don’t respect blue collar workers…. the word “Dummies”…
Before any of you give a knee jerk reaction about how “pull is good, push is bad” — I agree with you… pull is better than push. For manufacturing. In a factory, a “push” system pushes production and inventory along…
