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WSJ.com – Workers of Europe Innovate (subscription required) Great article in the WSJ today about a company in France that sounds like it’s doing many “lean” things without invoking Toyota. The leader of this company says, in part: Most businesses,…
Curious Cat Management Improvement – including economics, investment and more: New Toyota CEO’s Views The Curious Cat blog found a Business Week article with quotes from Toyota’s CEO. As they pointed out, how true this quote is: “Management has to…
Runner’s Web and Triathlete’s Web, a Running, Track and Field and Triathlon Resource Portal I don’t know how much this swimmer has studied lean, but I like his comments on swimming. They can apply to lean anywhere! “1. Working hard…
Driving to work today, I saw a new Nissan Z with the Arizona license plate “KAIZEN”. I couldn’t see who was driving (the way we all have to tint our windows here thanks to the sun), but the driver did…
New York Times Without getting into politics (is Toyota growing in Canada because of their education and health care systems, as proposed by Krugman), when reading this something struck me about this “Canada vs. Alabama” argument that came up a…
TIME.com: 10 Questions for Jeff Bezos — Aug. 01, 2005: “HERE’S A QUESTION YOU PROBABLY HEAR ALL THE TIME: READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY? [Laughs.] I read a book recently about Toyota’s lean production methodology, which is very interesting.” This…
Detroit News – 07/22/05 This really is a complex issue, the China currency pegging. It’s not just a China vs. U.S. issue, but within the U.S. it’s also a Automakers vs. High Tech issue. The Detroit News article points out…
Curious Cat Management Improvement The Deming-focused blog, Curious Cat, has comments on an earlier article I posted about Toyota and GM. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by…
Twice in the past week now, our department has had this similar problem happen. First, a global logistics company (rhymes with sledex) did not empty our overnight letter receptacle, even though they did pick up our freight. The second incident…
Detroit News – 07/20/05 Here is a column that discusses a trip taken by the MIchigan governor to Japan to meet with companies including Toyota. Many states are lobbying for the next rumored Toyota plant (in addition to the one…
Our consulting firm has two HR requirements before we’ll work with a client: 1. No regular employee will lose their job as a result of improvement activities. 2. No “forced ranking”. This means that there is no ongoing practice for…
This post comes from Mark Edmondson, President of LEAN Affiliates. Our team periodically visits a new client site that has a lean initiative in place. In these situations, we’re trained to rapidly assess the status of their efforts. Recently, after…