All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Guardian Unlimited Money | Work | So this is a problem in the UK? The U.S. has enough factors deterring kids from engineering and factory careers without TV shows making factory life look “boring, dirty and smelly”. “A survey of…
Evolving Excellence I’ve linked to them before, but there are a couple of excellent posts on the Superfactory Evolving Excellence Blog. Check them out! Thanks Cliff mentions the Travel Channel show “Made In America.” I agree, although the show is…
This is at the Terminal B baggage claim at DFW airport. There are three lights. And two signs. You tell me, which sign corresponds with which light? The baggage claim was already going, when the light on the right went…
AP Article Here’s one for anyone who would accuse me of only reporting good things about Toyota. They aren’t perfect, but I assume they would admit that. From today’s WSJ: Japan’s largest car maker in sales has long had a…
Weigh In – weighin – CIO I was pleasantly surprised that this was in CIO Magazine, which is mainly about IT topics. Not a bad article on change management and leadership within TPS Please check out my main blog page…
WSJ.com – Cubicle Culture Free version of article I always wonder if I should post links to WSJ articles, since I know not everybody has a $$ online subscription. But, I bet your boss reads it (or someone up “above”…
WSJ.com – In a Dizzying World, One Way to Keep Up: Renting Possessions Monday’s WSJ had an article about the trend of people “renting” possessions, a concept that is explored in the book “Lean Solutions”. The idea being that people…
Well, the Lions almost did it. The offence was ugly, painful for even the most die hard of Lions fans to stomach. The defense was sensational however, and they were able to keep the team in the game right up…
MercuryNews.com | 10/16/2005 | Electronics maker Solectron adopts Toyota’s laser-like focus on perpetual improvement Here is another story about Solectron’s lean journey. The phrase “perpetual improvement” struck me. The phrase “continuous improvement”, of course, is the commonly used term. I…
Ump Reflects on Controversial ALCS Call: If you don’t know now what happened at the end of the Angels/White Sox game two, the game story is here. What’s amazing to me is that baseball umpires are given so much personal…
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Blue Collar Innovation) The snopes.com website is the authoritative source for urban legends and debunking those internet rumors that go around. Here, they have a collection of factory type urban legends about people at the…
BetterProcess Podcast and Blog: PC every 5 seconds… Thanks to the BetterProcess blog for this article. The new Dell factory in NC is talking about 5 second takt times, then eventually 2.5 second takt times. Well, they don’t say “takt.”…
