All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Art of Lean Files Art Smalley, author and lean consultant, has an excellent website with a lot of files and resources to download. I downloaded and read a very interesting article about the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, written by…
I saw the phrase in the title of this post on a BFI bin for recycling pop cans. I believe BFI was purchased by Allied Waste Industries 6 or 7 years ago. The bins certainly appear to be at least…
IndustryWeek : China’s Lean JourneyHere’s an eye-opening piece from “ ” online. I’ve heard similar reports from a number of people now, including a friend of the blog who will hopefully be contributing to the Blog or Podcast on this…
Message Board Direct Link Update July 2010 – I’ve shut this board down, see my blog post about this. This is something I’ve wanted to try for a while — a LeanBlog Message Board at www.leanboard.org. If you’re not familiar,…
Here is an archived webinar with Jim Womack and John Shook, brought to us by the Lean Enterprise Institute, titled “Lean Management and the Role of Lean Leadership.” Here is a link to a text Q&A that Womack did with…
Here is LeanBlog Podcast #8, an interview with Jim Huntzinger, the President of the Lean Accounting Summit. In this Podcast, we will talk about the notion of “Lean Accounting” and some of the ways that traditional cost accounting and managerial…
(survey now closed, thanks if you particpated… will post results later)I received an email from a grad student in the Industrial Engineering department at Louisiana Tech University. You might recall the uproar over the “Unwritten Rules of Engineering” and the…
Sticks and Stones May Break Bones, But Warsaw, Ind., Makes Replacements – WSJ.com This was the fourth and final part in the WSJ series “Still Made in the USA.” There isn’t as much to talk about from a lean perspective…
Few Hands, Many Hours – WSJ.com Sorry for the delay in getting to Part 3 in the WSJ series that I like to call, “Hey, We Still Build Stuff Here?” Here are links for parts one and two. Part 3…
I received an email newsletter from APICS the other day, an email I question the central premise of. The email headline says: “A Lean GM?” At least they put that in quotes. Maybe sometimes an editor does that to not…
Lean Insider – A New, Enterprise Shingo Prize This news comes via the new Productivity Press “Lean Insider” blog that has been ramping up. I’ve been critical of the Shingo Prize before (as have others) for honoring individual factories that…
Last week I attended the joint meeting of LEAN (Lean Education Academic Network) and EdNet (Lean Aerospace Initiative Education Network) in Worcester Massachusetts. Here’s a link to the conference website: There were about 75 participants at the meeting and I…
