Here’s what jumped out at me from Friday’s WSJ articles on Alan Mulally: his “war room” and his “first impressions.” (both articles require paid WSJ subscriptions, I believe). The free version of the war room article is here. In the…
Evolving Excellence: If We Weren’t All Crazy, We’d Go Insane Bill Waddell hasn’t been blogging much lately, but he hits the nail right on the head, talking about an article about American prison labor — yup, that’s right manufacturing businesses…
Blue-collar exodus brings new challenges – 11/30/06 – The Detroit News Online: UPDATE: In case some of you don’t know my history of writing about how Ford and mass production companies typically don’t respect blue collar workers…. the word “Dummies”…
Materials costs force GM to raise prices Yet another example of a non-lean mindset company thinking they are entitled to price increases because costs went up. General Motors Corp. has raised prices an average of 0.5 percent on about one-third…
From the Lean Blog server logs…. I did this back in February and here’s what people are searching for today…. not the most popular searches, but the stuff that was searched for lately by ONE person (these are NOT the…
Rotorhub: The Information Hub of the Helicopter Industry Here’s an article about some military helicopter part production and a “lean” system. This jumped out at me: At Boeing, a frank Joe LaMarca, divisional communications director, said it was true that…
Jim Womack sent out one of his emails today, this time focused on Ford, with their termoil. Either he writes quickly or he already knew Ford was in trouble and was inspired to write by the appointment of new CEO…
USATODAY.com – Bill Ford replaced as Ford CEO by Boeing’s Alan Mulally So, will this help? Will Mulally help drive Ford to be more lean?I’m not close to Aero or Boeing at all. A google search showed that Mulally was…
Here is an article from Assembly Magazine by Adam Cort about Boeing’s Dreamliner called Living the Dream. Boeing has been working on lean for a long, long time. For quite a while, there was little to show for it. But…
After my “Shingo Investing” analysis last week, someone asked “what about the Industry Week Best Plants winners?” I conducted a similar analysis. Because the IW awards are typically given in October, I looked at the stock prices from Oct 1…
Evolving Excellence: Its About Cost, Stupid! Great post here by Bill Waddell about the Toyota “Profit/Cost” model ofProfit = Price – Cost. He elaborates on it as “Profit = (Price x Volume) – Cost and points out origins tracing back…
Got Boondoggle?: The Paradigm Network: On his blog, Mike W. writes about a local lean group that meets in the Indianapolis area. In Phoenix, where I just moved from, there is a group called the ‘Valley Lean Council’ (Phoenix being…
