FT.com / Home UK / UK – Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distribution OK, I’m catching up on an old post since I saw a very similar story in the NY Times yesterday. First the FT story: There’s…
Modern Healthcare Online ($$) | Fierce Healthcare (free) For those not in healthcare, the Joint Commission is a non-profit hospital accreditation organization. You might remember that Paul Levy and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital posted their full Joint Commission report online…
Updated 7/29: Click here ——————— Updated 7/28: The book now shows as “In Stock” at www.productivitypress.com and amazon.com says it will be “in stock on August 16.” Thanks for your patience. I’ve been just as antsy as anybody, since I…
Think Like the CEO of a Brand Called You « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel The much-maligned software salespeople telling the truth? It was bound to happen. Mark Kuta, a former software salesperson, is peddling a book. In an…
I’m proud to report that I survived driving in the U.K. for the first time today, driving about an hour to Cambridge. I’m working in a town without a direct rail link (would have to go down to London and…
A returning guest (episodes #30 and #38), Bob Emiliani is again featured in episode #48 of the LeanBlog Podcast. Since the mid-1990s, Bob has focused on de-mystifying what he calls the “black art” of Lean leadership. In this conversation, he…
NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months – Health News, Health & Wellbeing – The Independent Trust me, I’m not picking on the NHS. There’s a lot of good things happening here with Lean and I’ll blog about some of…
I know Tim Noble and he sent this to me, so I’m basically just going to reprint the press release verbatim and the solicit your comments: Lean Talent Demand Finally Edges Out Six Sigma Fourth annual study by executive search…
Clients of mine always end up saying something like “Lean really gets into your head… it’s hard to turn off” – or at least one on every project ends up saying that. That’s a good thing… a way of thinking,…
Wenger Corp. Announces Price Increases – MarketWatch Harkening back to my earlier post about GM schizophrenically cutting AND raising prices (due to poor sales and rising materials costs), we find another article about a company raising prices “because they have…
Industry News: GM To Offer Zero-Percent Financing, Raise Prices, Screen Hummer Buyers It’s very hard to figure out what GM is thinking these days. In the first link above, the Jalopnik blog highlights an inconsistency I also noticed… it’s the…
Monday morning blues ‘are a myth’ – Science, News – The Independent I’m going to take a bit of a “blog holiday” this weekend, since it’s a holiday in the U.S. (I prefer to call it “Independence Day,” not the…