Free Career Journal Link — new link for July 12 This article talks about Chinese manufacturing companies not in the context of cheap labor, but in the context of management skill. Most successful Chinese companies are the result of turning…
Darrell Norton’s Blog [MVP] We’ve had “lean healthcare day” before, maybe today is “lean software day.” A recent visitor to this blog is a software developer and pointed me to some resources on applying lean methods and principles to software…
Productivity Press I’ve mentioned this lean “business novel” before. I’m linking to this ad for the book because I was quoted in an email marketing campaign that Productivity Press sent out about the book. I do believe that the book…
CBC News: 2nd Toyota plant for Canada, president says Click above for the story. I’m glad Toyota and other foreign automakers are growing to make up for jobs lost from the “Big Three/Two”. Please check out my main blog page…
Fortune 75 – Best and Worst Calls in Business History – FORTUNE – Page 9 I’m a huge fan of W. Edwards Deming. Since he passed way in the 90’s, it seems that Deming has fallen off the map of…
Eyewitness News 11.com: Duke Awaits Analysis in Instrument Probe: It’s lean healthcare day on the blog, I guess. This is an update to a story reported earlier. “Bassett received a letter from Duke in January, which said surgical instruments had…
I’ve been reading a well-known book about entrepreneurship and small business, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. What continually amazes me about the book is that, written in 1995, it describes…
Slashdot | The Laptop Supply Chain Slashdot.org commentary (with a link to a free WSJ article). The WSJ article discusses the somewhat hidden laptop supply chain. Dell used to do “final assembly” (just a few last components) in Austin or…
GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008 – Yahoo! News I’m starting to get sick of beating up on GM. I hate to say it, as a former GM employee, but I agree with the UAW on this…
Muskegon (MI) Chronicle It’s good to see another example of trying to use lean to remain competitive versus moving this work and factory out of the country. It seems like shipping costs on bowling balls would lead you toward locating…
Bangkok Post Wednesday 25 May 2005 – China sourcing: Are you ready? On one hand, this author says: They also talk about a successful implementation of the Toyota Production System/Lean Enterprise principles. He also directly observed this: The work ethic…
Bloomberg.com Interesting that imports from China slowed last month, at least if you’re comparing just two data points. Analysts think there is good news to be found here that the economy is not slowing down (which I hope to be…
