Dell Is Considering Selling Its Factories – Yahoo! News Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs – WSJ.com As a former Dell employee (1999-2000), I was surprised and maybe a bit angry when they announced, earlier this…
I heard a great quote at a conference today. I would give attribution, but I’m not sure if I have the OK to cite the person and company (they keep below the radar): “Lean can make a good manager great.…
So I’m using some online software for work, a system that I don’t normally have to use. I enter a login and password, and then hit the ENTER key on my keyboard. Most web pages or software will recognize this…
I was a big fan of the book Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together, but I’m not sure how much of an impact it’s had on the business world. There are still far too…
Mid-Michigan Manufacturing Letter – Here’s a letter from a manufacturing center leader at a small state university in my home state, Michigan. Robert Schooks writes about about the state of the industry and a visit to an electric motor manufacturer.…
Through my promotional partner, RevResponse, I am able to offer a number of free white papers. Registering for these white papers brings referral revenue to the Lean Blog, to make that relationship clear. Many of these papers are limited to…
Running a hospital: Surprising use of Lean Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, is a blogger and advocate for Lean healthcare. In this post, he forwards a story about someone using lean methods to help…
Amazon Online Reader : Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction I know this has been frustrating for people, but here’s the best I know. Some of you have gotten your copies, but my book is current out…
Credit crunch – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I hate the term “credit crunch.” It’s used in headlines as a noun, a “crunch” that’s some sort of monster that terrorizes banks and individuals. Headlines, such as: Banks count the cost of…
CNBC Link to Show and Online Video I’m setting the DVR from England and will watch this over the internet when time allows (isn’t technology great?). A PR person from CNBC pointed out this show, so I thought I’d suggest…
Pre-Printed Value Stream Mapping Post-it Symbols – 6 Post-it’s per sheet I’m not picking on the retailer… I support the “Lean Supermarket” and they’ve been an advertiser before. They didn’t invent these, but this seems like a solution looking for…
I got into the middle of this discussion on the Healthcare Management Engineers (HME) group on Yahoo. A question was posed: We’re in the process of designing a new facility for a small group of family practice physicians. I’m primarily…