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.…
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To Merge or Not To Merge… Lean & TPS?
By Bill Hanover of ThroughPut Solutions It was proposed on Wikipedia (an open source online encyclopedia that anyone can edit,) that the main article regarding “Lean Manufacturing” should be merged with the main article regarding “The Toyota Production System.” Maybe…
What’s On Toyota’s Mind?
Thanks to Pete for findng this and sending it my way. This link takes you to an animation thats apparently produced for Toyota Sweden. Here is the animation with English subtitles (you can view this with or without sound). The…
Mulally: Toyota Good (Once Again)
Mulally Pans `Paranoid’ Ford, Pushes Toyota-Style Production I criticized Alan Mulally earlier, via my criticism of Boeing. To be clear: I respect Mulally. I am really rooting for Alan Mulally. Mulally is such an outspoken promoter of the Toyota Production…
Toyota Roundup
Lots of Toyota news with the new Tundra and the Detroit Auto Show going on:Toyota Enters the Auto Show With a Swagger (NY Times)From the article: No longer does Toyota fear the reaction it faced as recently as the 1990s,…
Hiding Defects in the Ceiling
USA’s only breast implant factory adjusts to silicone approval (USA Today) First off, shame on the journalist for using the “everything is bigger in Texas” cliche in her story. About my headline… yes, that’s not referenced in the USA Today,…
Respect in Retail Roundup (Wal-Mart and Home Despot)
Forbes Article on Wal-Mart Here is a decidedly pro-Wal-Mart article (“the fair and balanced Lean Blog”) in a follow up to this post about Wal-Mart’s new employee scheduling practices. Forbes points out that Lowes and Target also use this type…
Lean Challenge Response: Bill Hanover
Here is a response to the Lean Challenge contest entry (click here to read the situation submitted by Rich, a blog reader). Click on the “Contest” link at the bottom of this post to see more responses. If you have…
Is Wal-Mart’s Algorithmic Scheduling Lean — or Disrespectful to People?
Walmart scheduling raises a practical Lean question: how can a business match staffing to demand while giving employees predictable work? This post examines a January 2007 report, followed by a connection to the Good Jobs Strategy. It is not a…
Bad Boss Roundup
A few articles in the news today about bad bosses. Hopefully, more than a few have 2007 resolutions to get better. Chances are though, the bad bosses think they are great. If your boss has resolutions for becoming a better…
Lean Blog Carnival
Kevin Meyer used to do a lean “blog carnival”, so maybe it’s now my turn. There are many great blogs out there and here’s a highlight of what’s been really good recently. Kevin’s blog had a feature on Whirlpool’s understanding…
Ford’s Mulally meets with Toyota
NY Times: Ford and Toyota Chiefs Met in Tokyo MSNBC: Ford’s Mulally signals co-operation with Toyota In the NY Times today… apparently they fired up Mark Fields’ private jet and flew off to Japan last week to meet with Toyota…
