StartupGarden: Tag in the Blogosphere OK, this is not Lean related, but I try to show a little personality around here once in a while. My friend, and fellow blogger, Tom Ehrenfeld, was pulled into a blogger game of “publish…
Hospitals prescribe increased reimbursements from insurers to aid recovery of sickly health care system Hospitals need to learn to reduce costs. You can’t just ask for more money to cover your rising costs. It’s a frequent topic on this blog,…
Sturm, Ruger to offer buyouts I’ve been getting entries in the “Lean Challenge” contest and read about this challenge online. We all talk about how lean shouldn’t drive layoffs. But what happens when you free up head count and can’t…
by Jamie Flinchbaugh I’m not sure if this has much to do with lean, other than to say that business leaders are needed to make lean work. My friend Randy Pinkett who last year won Donald Trump’s The Apprentice has…
Auto writer: Assembling Ford Focus isn’t so easy I saw this in the paper while in Detroit this week and cringed. Ford is actually letting a reporter help build an actual car for an actual customer?? Without actual training? I…
Personal Technology – WSJ.com The Wall Street Journal has an article today about two automated online backup systems, Mozy and Carbonite. Each costs about $50 a year to automatically, in the background, backup your files to a remote online server.…
Safety Issues on the Table: Saw this quote in an article about safety: “A range of issues and concerns fall under the rubric of ‘globalization,’ from the challenges of maintaining safe and healthy workplaces amidst the pressures of lean manufacturing…
Hi folks — one feature of this blog (and most blogs) is the ability for visitors to leave comments, either anonymously or under their names. I got a great comment today from Charles H. Green on my post about the…
The consulting group I work for is a subsidiary of a very large company, with a large fleet of company vehicles. Driver safety is a major focus, both because it’s the right thing to do (help keep employees safe) and…
GreenPrint’s green prince A core component of Lean thinking is the reduction or elimination of waste. Waste is sometimes defined as anything beyond the bare minimum that’s required to accomplish a task or goal. For a long time, I’ve noticed…
The cover story this week in Business Week is called Smashing the Clock. It is the story of Best Buy’s removal of all expectations of when and where you work. The only thing that matters are the results. I’m not…
Hollywood Report – WSJ.com: I’m not a fan of “The O.C.” but this caught my eye in the WSJ today: “What went wrong at ‘The O.C.’? It’s impossible to pinpoint an exact reason, since TV series aren’t assembly-line products that…