Inside Bay Area – IBA – Alameda Times-Star – Home Here’s a pretty glowing article about how NUMMI, the Toyota/GM joint venture plant in Fremont CA, focuses on employee health and safety. When I visited NUMMI last year, one of…
The GM “Jobs Bank” has come up many times here before, but now the Wall St. Journal has a front page article (subscription required). The headline: “Detroits Symbol of Dysfunction.” Other accounts have put the number at 12,000, the WSJ…
WSJ.com – Pizza-Delivery Teams Are Training Hard For Sunday’s Game ($$$) I started reading this with great interest, expecting to read about the operations side of a pizza delivery business. It also made me think back to the folks at…
IndustryWeek Column Here is the original article in question, from the Wall St Journal. The article did a little fear mongering, as the WSJ seems to do about once a year, about risks of “just in time” inventory practices. Womack…
Detroit News – 10/17/05 UPDATE 2/9/06: Why the sudden interest in this article?? Email me. This isn’t new news, nor is it a new program, the GM “jobs bank”. When I worked at GM, 1995-96, as a new college graduate,…
Article Link –> Dell Will Miss Q3 Target – CIO News Alerts – Blog – CIO Dell Computer announced they are not going to meet Wall Street estimates for the second straight quarter, so it’s open season on them by…
New Chrysler head LaSorda sees improved earnings in 2006, plans ‘smart’ output – Forbes.com You can tell LaSorda is a real lean guy from the longer WSJ version of this article, I love it: During the mid-1990s, Mr. LaSorda was…
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,…
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…
