Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Matt, for sending this first-hand account. I’m sorry he (and his wife) had to go through this experience. This is posted with his permission. I’ll buck convention a bit and put my comments in…
I can’t say this is strictly Lean related, but I thought this was funny and I’ll share it anyway. So I’m at the airport terminal in Edmonton on Thursday, waiting to fly home and saw this one (and only) food…
Business Week Article Here is a new article from Business Week, which also focuses on the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company. I’m going to have a chance to meet the author,…
By Dan Markovitz Mark posted yesterday about the relative leanness of light rail vs. buses. He pointed out that a rail line probably has more capacity, but it’s very much a fixed asset, a “monument” if you will. Buses are…
Thanks to a Lean Blog reader, Ryan, for sending this in (click on the ad for a larger image). He asked why BMW would brag about it taking SEVEN years to develop a new vehicle? This is much slower than…
Guest Post By Mike Thelen: ——————————– I received an interesting piece of “junk mail” this morning. What caught my attention and provoked me to open it was simply that it was from Honda and my Lean obsessive-ness engaged. Now, I…
Click here for Part 1 and Part 2 of the series of posts about my visit to Dr. Sami Bahri, the “World’s First Lean Dentist.” In Part 2, I talked about how the Lean “tool heads” might be disappointed, and…
You might have seen Part 1 of my Lean viewing of the Fox show “Kitchen Nightmares.” I watched the second half of the show, so here is the rest of the story. As the show progressed, improvements are made, basically…
I’ve been fortunate to be attending a healthcare related event in Jacksonville FL this week and I’ve had the chance to meet Dr. Sami Bahri, the “world’s first Lean dentist,” who lives and works here. You may remember him from…
Series of Town Hall Meetings on Manufacturing Issues I’ve written before about John Ratzenberger (from Cheers fame) and his show “Made in America.” I’ve always appreciated his show because of what seems to be sincere interest in how things are…
I think I’ve mentioned this resource before, the free content that is online in Google Books. Even though I own Taiichi Ohno’s book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, but it so much easier to search the book online. You…
I was just contacted this morning by David Magee, the author of the upcoming book How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Greatest Car Company I’m hoping to do a Podcast interview with David and I should be…
