All posts from Mark Graban’s LeanBlog.org, including podcasts, announcements, articles, and more.
Management & Marketing: Since we were talking about “lean software” yesterday…. I’m not an expert on Toyota history so I can’t validate every assumption made in this article. If you can, please click “Comments” below and let us know what…
Steve Hebert’s Development Blog Keeping with the lean software theme, here is another in-depth post with references to other lean software websites, articles, and whitepapers. “Agile” development, along with another methodology called “Extreme Programming” are other lean-type methodologies that try…
Darrell Norton’s Blog [MVP] We’ve had “lean healthcare day” before, maybe today is “lean software day.” A recent visitor to this blog is a software developer and pointed me to some resources on applying lean methods and principles to software…
Productivity Press I’ve mentioned this lean “business novel” before. I’m linking to this ad for the book because I was quoted in an email marketing campaign that Productivity Press sent out about the book. I do believe that the book…
ChallengerNKY.com: A Voice for Northern Kentucky — Business: Here is an article about a guy who used to work with Toyota and has now started a “lean logistics” company, LeanCor, in Kentucky, with Maytag among their clients. “The lean style…
Article Link: Fast Company Now this is an old article, from 1996, about a “lean” home builder in Austin TX. Doyle Wilson homes was also featured prominently in the book Lean Thinking. I can’t figure out what happened to the company…
Cincinnati Enquirer: It will be interesting to see if Toyota can apply rapid continuous improvement cycles to building winning NASCAR cars after starting in the truck series: “‘It was very easy for us to kind of apply the Toyota production…
TPS – Lean Manufacturing and Process Improvements: Lean Articles Here is a good article from Bill Hanover, President of ThroughPut Solutions. Bill previously wrote a series of articles on lean management, “Mere Mortal Managers”, which I also recommend highly. Bill…
Business Edge News Magazine – businessedge.ca – Ontario Edition: A rebuttal from Alabama (and Toyota) Does your company want intelligent workers who can think or the “cheapest” labor you can find? Here is an article about Toyota’s choice of Ontario…
IndustryWeek : Continuous Improvement This is a new recurring column from Industry Week. The author makes the pitch that companies shouldn’t “forget about” continuous improvement in the face of today’s other manufacturing issues (competition from China, Chinese currency issues, etc.).…
MoreRFID Nissan’s version of “TPS” is the “Nissan Production Way”. Here is an interesting article about the use of new technology (RFID) to help their manufacturing process. The Toyota Way has one principle that says to use only established, proven…
i-Newswire.com – Press Release And News Distribution – Kanban Marketshare Leader is Datacraft Solutions I can certainly see the appeal in electronic kanban. If you have a truck that comes to your plant twice a week and you’re sending physical…
