E-Z-GO’s Kevin Holleran 040608 – The Augusta Chronicle On this blog, we often talk about the Lean concept that a company is not entitled to arbitrarily tack on a desired profit margin to their incurred costs (the equation of Price…
The W. Edwards Deming Institute This has to be the best title for a seminar ever: How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business(Many Organizations Do It, But Do You Know How You Do It?) The Deming…
IndustryWeek Article about the Book | Subscribe to IndustryWeek Amazon Link: Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation When I first read this headline, I misread it, thinking it was about the “fear of inventory” (something that seems like a…
Coaches grousing over mandatory helmets : Rockies : The Rocky Mountain News Happy Opening Day to baseball fans out there. I grew up a huge Detroit Tigers fan (and a highlight was that championship 1984 season) and still like the…
Time to pick on UPS again (see the “UPS” link at the bottom of the post)… Has anyone else seen the UPS “whiteboard” ad (the ones with the annoying long-haired business-casual corporate hippie guy) that’s running during almost every NCAA…
Sometimes, I have a collection of news stories or links that I either don’t have time to blog about, assume you don’t have time to read about, or don’t really merit a full blog post. So my “WIP” of “draft”…
Employee’s suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers – Salt Lake TribuneThis isn’t a “Lean” article, but holy moley, you have to read the linked story and think about how a company culture gets that far off the rails. First…
Sometimes people ask me, “how does Lean apply in a hospital?” The critical issues in a hospital are more often about culture and environment (although using technical lean methods for improving processes and flow are important also). Many hospitals, unfortunately,…
I just realized I was too busy to stop and recognize the “birthday” of the Lean Blog, as we turned “3” in March. I’m proud of the blog and very grateful for the constructive and friendly community that we have…
They say “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but I hope you like the cover that my publisher and I have come up with. I was pretty steadfast that Lean is about people and the cover should reflect that.…
Why do many of our best companies move to China or other countries? Some do it for the lower labor rates, but just as many move because they can’t find skilled labor, engineers and other resources here in the U.S.…
Lean Hospitals Book A few quick updates on my book, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction. It is still due out July 23, 2008. If you want to sign up for my email newsletter about the book,…
