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Here is installment #3 in my exclusive Q&A with Jim Womack, co-author of Lean Solutions along with Daniel Jones. Here, Jim discusses more Lean Consumption and Lean Solutions concepts, discussing executive leadership types, the role of process thinkers, Dell Computer,…
USATODAY.com – Efficiency can solve a host of problems From yesterday’s USA Today. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by the author, Mark Graban. , , , on…
I liked seeing this at my local Starbucks. As they sell whole bean coffee and bags are removed, you can see stickers that have been applied on the shelf to indicate what product goes where. I’m not saying Starbucks is…
Link to PaperI found this great paper on the web. Though I could not find a date on it, I see a lot of value in the planning approach suggested by the author, Olugbenga O. Mejabi. The approach is very…
A story from a friend in Detroit: I was crossing the border from Michigan into Ontario, both places where a lot of cars are manufactured. The border guard decided to strike up a conversation, which you can’t argue with since…
Thanks again to Jim Womack for his participation. In the next few installments, we’ll move into questions about America’s manufacturing competitiveness, Dell Computer, and opportunities for entrepreneurs through Lean Thinking. Be sure to check back again for future installments. Part…
Columnist Doron Levin Interesting quote, about the power of small improvements: “Toyota just saves and saves in a million little ways and then uses that money as a club against its competitors,” said Jim Olson, a former Toyota executive and…
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 New Q&A February 2006 Be sure to see all five parts of the Q&A, links are above and at the end of Part #1. Thanks to James P. Womack, co-author…
NUMMI Tour Tale #4: The Pull Gift Shop While the NUMMI plant would score very highly on almost any measure of visual management, you could still see on a tour that it wasn’t 100% perfect in its 5S compliance. In…
USATODAY.com – Gas companies’ record profits take toll on average Americans: “‘We’re an oil and gas company,’ Exxon spokesman Dave Gardner says.” It seems that Exxonmobil is not being customer focused, nor are they being “solution focused”, as the new…
USATODAY.com – Why are tech gizmos so hard to figure out?: I love quote, in the USA Today, about why so many gadgets are tough to use. “‘It really is hard to be easy,’ says Keith Karn, senior usability engineer…
Industrial Reporting, Inc. Article Another case of how every factory and industry likes to thing they are different, with hand wringing over “lean works” or not when making things like pallets. I guess every industry has to go through it,…
