Toyota NAmerica forms independent panel to evaluate workplace harassment – Forbes.com Toyota Motor North America Names New Leadership Team, Appointing Yuki Funo Chairman and CEO, and Jim Press President If there is any upside in the alleged Toyota sexual harrassment…
I saw an example of error proofing when I was registering on Art Smalley’s Lean Website. Like many websites, it makes you enter your email address twice. If you type it incorrectly one time, the system will flag you and…
IndustryWeek : Beyond Lean: The Perfect Lean Market Subscribe to IndustryWeek … everything looks like a nail. Right? I’m an Industry Week subscriber and the magazine is generally worthwhile. I’ve linked to some of their articles and commentary on lean…
ManagementWisdom.com I blogged earlier about an excellent “Lean Healthcare” DVD called “Good News: How Hospitals Heal Themselves”. Please call or email your local PBS station and ask them to air it, as many other PBS stations have done. I’m still…
I realize that I’m not doing well on personal inventory management when I’m sending out Mothers Day cards with Christmas stamps! At least that’s just a few bucks worth of inventory the drawer. I don’t send “snail mail” much anymore,…
WSJ.com – Mom, Apple Pie and…Toyota? Ford and it’s “Way Forward” leader, Mark Fields, have been trying to wrap the company in the U.S. flag and patriotism. “Americans really do want to buy American brands,” asserted Ford Executive Vice President…
A better tool to fight rising health costs? – The Boston Globe From a lean perspective, you have to admire any sincere efforts to help improve quality and efficiency in healthcare. As a country, we can’t afford double-digit cost increases…
AP Wire | 05/10/2006 | Toyota’s quarterly profit jumps 39 percent Quarterly business update on Toyota, including some executive changes. Just about the only recent trouble Toyota has encountered is a $190 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed last week against…
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USATODAY.com Sigh, another grand management pronoucement designed to dazzle Wall Street. From the article: “Chipmaker Intel (INTC) plans to slash costs in hopes of pulling out of its recent slump, CEO Paul Otellini said Thursday. Otellini, speaking to analysts in…
An email from a friend, he and his company will remain anonymous. “OK so it’s confession time. I’ve been reading your Blog fairly regularly here at work. We dabble in lean stuff here. Generally it’s frustrating reading an expert opinion…
ContraCostaTimes.com | 05/05/2006 | Consumers feel the sting at pump and elsewhere Post office wants to raise stamp prices – U.S. Life – MSNBC.com: I’m ticked off reading about “fuel surcharges” that many companies are tacking on to their prices…