Listen: Episode #26 of the LeanBlog Podcast brings us Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, of the Visual Lean Institute. She is the author, most recently of the book Visual Workplace, Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace.…
Book Link There’s a new book from Chuck Yorke, co-author of the book All You Gotta Do Is Ask with Norm Bodek. The new book can be found here and is called “Yes Innovation: Everyday Improvement Everyday Leadership” The book…
IndustryWeek : Where Is Your Company’s Next Big Idea Coming From? Chuck Yorke was co-author, along with our friend Norman Bodek, of the book All You Gotta Do Is Ask. In an Industry Week column, Chuck continues to make the…
So after getting such strong recommendations about the book from Norman Bodek and, then today, from Dwight Bowen, I finally started reading “Getting the Right Things Done” by Pascal Dennis. A line in the introduction struck me: “Strategy deployment is…
Goldman upgrades Dell on turnaround hopes Here’s another contrast between Toyota and Dell, particularly striking in context of my recent podcast with Norman Bodek: Dell shares rallied nearly 3 percent Monday after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to “buy” from…
IndustryWeek : How To Practice Hoshin Kanri Here is a summary of a book published recently by the LEI. I recorded a podcast interview with Norman Bodek last weekend (look for it soon at www.leanpodcast.org) and Norman mentioned this book,…
In the Lead – WSJ.com Maybe the whole Toyota notion of “respect for people” and developing employees is the real “secret” sauce that companies can’t copy (or refuse to). While not mentioning Toyota, this WSJ article caught my eye this…
Study Warns Of Desk Jockey Clot Danger – CBS News You might have heard of “Deep Vein Thrombosis” and blood clots as being a health risk on long plane rides, but what about sitting at a desk or in meetings…
Tip of the hat to Jon Miller for finding this first. I have to chime in. I’m sure a lot of us have joked about it, a book called “Lean for Dummies.” Unfortunately, now it is here: Lean For Dummies.…
No, this isn’t about Al Gore and his infamous Social Security “lock box.” This is about suggestion boxes that we sometimes see hanging on the wall in workplaces. With my current lean project, we co-opted the existing department suggestion box…
I went through a discussion today that reminded me of a similar situation early in a lean effort at my old manufacturing company a few years back. Early in lean efforts, one of the things I focus on is 5S,…
Lean Blog: Misunderstandings About Value Stream Mapping, Flow Analysis, and Takt Time The link above is my first blog post, from January 2005 (back when the blog looked like this). I let the blog “birthday” slip by again this year.…
