GM’s Actual Ad Actually Lame
Here is the actual ad that ran during the game, after seeing the preview here. If you’re reading this via RSS or a news reader, come visit the actual blog page to view the commercial video. So, the “joke”…
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More Education or a Better Process??
Fatal Dose: Ohio Girl is Killed By Medical Mistake Here is a sad story of a girl’s death due to a hospital pharmacy mistake. Pharmacies oftentimes just repackage and dispense “off the shelf” drugs (such as pills), but they often…
Moving Assembly Lines = "Lean?"
Airbus cuts costs by learning from auto industry – MarketWatch Here’s an article that talks about Airbus and their lean efforts. The moving production line, which Airbus calls “lean manufacturing,” breaks with previous civil aviation industry practice whereby aircraft were…
Waste in Your Mailbox
Productivity Cafe: Stop Junk Mail Lean Blog reader Osvaldo brought this up as an example of waste — mail that ends up in your mailbox (catalogs, solicitations) that goes right into your garbage can. Apparently, it’s “National Junk Mail Awareness…
A Hospital Death in Florida
Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: A woman dies after receiving 8 grams of Dilantin I read about this on the blog linked above and the source article is here. A nurse administered an incorrect dose to a patient, TEN TIMES…
Lean Suits Story on NPR
NPR : Suit Maker Goes ‘Lean’ to Keep Jobs in U.S. I’ll comment more on this later, but this was on NPR this morning. Overall, positive mentions of lean, although there was a common complaint from a worker about having…
How Specific an Example Do You Need?
From the Northwest Lean Network email listserv, about a week ago: ” I am looking for experiences using lean practices and tools in fruit juice businesses.” I’ve seen a lot of this, people asking for very specific examples of lean…
Ford’s Fields Finally Sacrifices
Detroit News Article | Jan 4. WSJ Article on Uproar This was in Automotive News, a follow up to this earlier blog post and story about Mark Fields using a private company jet to fly home to Florida each weekend.…
"You can’t s*** on your employees"
Business Week: Out At Home Depot As more details about the former Home Depot “leader” and his “leadership” come out, it’s a sad case study of bad leadership (written about earlier, at risk of being accused of Shadenfreude). Why am…
Lean is Jazz
Hot corporations know how to swing – USATODAY.com Interesting article in the USA Today business section yesterday, an interview with jazz great Wynton Marsalis about how jazz concepts can apply to business. I’m a drummer (or at least used to…
Healthy Addictions
I was working in my home office this morning, about 9 AM. It’s icy, cold, rainy here in Texas. It was below freezing and raining, yet here comes a jogger running down the street. I thought, wow, she’s nuts. I’m…
Calling DFW or Texas Lean Companies
Personal request — I’m looking for a Dallas/Fort Worth area company that is in an advanced state of lean implementation. (that’s quite a flexible definition of what “advanced” means, obviously). West Texas (Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Abilene, El Paso) or Central Texas…