All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Fortune: The new rules – Jul. 11, 2006 Part of Fortune’s cover story about how Jack Welch’s “old rules” don’t apply anymore, this includes the “old” rule of annually removing your “C players” from the employee ranks. The “new” rule…
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…
Order via Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Order via Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Order through the GBMP I received a copy of this DVD through work and just watched it this afternoon. I plan on using it next week to…
I won’t comment on this much, because I’m not an expert on the Chinese auto industry (I still buy U.S.-built cars). But The Great Race: China offers big challenges but huge opportunities offers a primer on the ins and outs…
I found this in a non-lean book, but I can see how this applies to our lean world, this change model: Many of the factories I worked with my career were in that first phase — they were “unconsciously incompetent”…
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management: It’s no surprise that Tom Peters would have this take. He always asks, “what happens when you combine two big slow stupid elephants? it’s usually a bigger, slower, dumber elephant” (I am…
Unless you subscribe to Superfactory, you probably haven’t noticed a nearly raging debate on the true contributions to “lean” and the Toyota Production System by one Dr. Shigeo Shingo. Here’s a little of the storyline. It basically comes down to…
I received an email from an MBA student in Turkey (this truly is a global lean community). The emailer asked me a question (which I posting here with permission): I am doing research for my project at school. I noticed…
Jump-Start or New Battery for G.M.? – New York Times Interesting point made by the New York Times about GM and Nissan-Renault. Most everyone has focused on cost-cutting opportunities, but the writer here highlights the cultural and/or operational differences that…
DailyKaizen I don’t know if it’s fair to call the DailyKaizen site a “lean healthcare” blog, I think we can all learn from it as another “lean blog.” This is a blog that had been private within a health system…
No One Does Lean Like The Japanese – Business Week This article has some nice case study examples of how Matsushita is using lean principles to turn their business around. But, this article compounds some of the usual lean myths.…
Push for simpler spelling persists This idea iz stoopid. You can’t haf peepole saying “this speling works beter for mee”. Spelling properly is a form of standard work. Try reading the article I’ve linked to. The author is being cute…
