Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog OK, so it doesn’t seem very lean for a blog to link to a blog that’s linked to an article. But…. the Curious Cat blog is very much worth checking out for information about TPS…
Lean Manufacturing Blog: New Balance Shoes Uses Lean I’ve highlighted New Balance before (see the link above for any article from April). I just bought a pair of NB running shoes (not that I run that much), partly because I…
NBC 4 – News – DWP: Workers Trigger Outage By Connecting Wrong Wires A few thoughts come to mind reading about this. First off, if a single employee error can cause such wide blackouts, is that more of a systemic…
Curious Cat Management Improvement The Deming-focused blog, Curious Cat, has comments on an earlier article I posted about Toyota and GM. Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are reading is copyrighted by…
alan’s blog: The author says: “Anytime you see a new corporate program being rolled out with posters and coffee mugs and exhortations from the CEO the alarm bells should go off – similarly, if you’re the exec thinking up the…
KRT Wire | 06/14/2005 : Above is an article that talks about Boeing and Airbus moving airplane production into China. This item struck me as very Toyota like in the attitude: “Ubiquitous white poster boards with company slogans hang in…
Learning about Lean There is a very interesting article, original from the ASQ Journal, linked to on the “Learning about Lean” blog. In a manner that reminds me of W. Edwards Deming, the article makes the case that all real…
WSJ.com – The Doctor’s Office (free feature): “Most medical errors in the doctor’s office are process errors. These result from communication problems, office administration problems, incorrect medical test reports and decisions based on incomplete information. Many process errors are minor…
