Have Knife, Will Travel: A Slaughterhouse on Wheels (WSJ-Free) So I realize this article and post might be controversial. My point isn’t to start a “meat is good” or “meat is bad” debate. I know that conditions in slaughterhouses can…
Dell Is Considering Selling Its Factories – Yahoo! News Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs – WSJ.com As a former Dell employee (1999-2000), I was surprised and maybe a bit angry when they announced, earlier this…
FT.com / Home UK / UK – Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distribution OK, I’m catching up on an old post since I saw a very similar story in the NY Times yesterday. First the FT story: There’s…
Industry News: GM To Offer Zero-Percent Financing, Raise Prices, Screen Hummer Buyers It’s very hard to figure out what GM is thinking these days. In the first link above, the Jalopnik blog highlights an inconsistency I also noticed… it’s the…
Stung by Soaring Transport Costs, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again – WSJ.com Lean thinkers have long advocated the benefits of having a shorter supply chain — faster response, keeping jobs at home, being close to the customer, and better quality.…
Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In – WSJ It’s inevitable — as manufacturing jobs decline and our population ages, more people will shift from manufacturing jobs into healthcare. (Free version of article here) BANGOR, Maine — In this aging manufacturing region,…
Cutback Cuisine – WSJ.com: If you’re a regular reader, you know I like to try to draw from non-traditional sources and industries. This article from WSJ caught my eye and made me think of some Lean concepts. As in many…
Networks Plot Course – WSJ.com As the entertainment industry works to recover from the recently-ended writers’ strike, the WSJ article featured a quote from a division of General Electric: “[the networks] are hoping to maintain some of the cost-cutting benefits…
Cubicle Culture – WSJ.com: Why Learn and Grow On the Job? It’s Easier To Feign Infallibility Free Version via CareerJournal.com In the Lean / Toyota Way mindset, we have the belief that we have to be open about our problems…
Care and Chaos on the Night Nursing Shift – WSJ.com Free Version via CareerJournal.com The linked article is a virtual “gemba walk” for those of you who have asked how and why Lean is helpful and necessary in a hospital…
Put Buyers First? What a Concept – New York Times I’m a huge fan of Amazon (AMZN), having first ordered a “required pre-reading” book from them in March 1997, before I went to grad school. I’ve hardly had anything go…
Can US Airways Pass Test of Time? – WSJ.com: Saw this about US Airways (LCC), an airline I used to fly a lot when I lived and it was just America West. The airline has struggled through its merger —…
