Lean Baby Names?
Our friend and sometimes blogger Bill Hanover posted a comment a few days ago about the arrival of a baby boy – congrats. He joked about “Lean” names, so I’ll share a few suggestions (and feel free to submit some):…
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Smaller Airline Batches Hurt the System?
Small Jets, More Trips Worsen Airport Delays – AOL Money & Finance Here’s a free version of an article that originally appeared in the WSJ last week. Going back to the book Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones talked about their…
SME Lean Yearbook 2007
Link to Purchase on SME.org I was very honored to be asked to write an essay/case study on lean healthcare for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers new “Lean Yearbook” publication and that book is out now. It’s a large magazine…
What IBM is Doing isn’t Lean At All
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Lean and Mean | PBS Alas, we can’t sue IBM Global Services (not IBM manufacturing) for misappropriation of the word “Lean.” This is yet another example of L.A.M.E., “Lean as Misguidedly Executed.” I don’t…
What You’re Searching For
I routinely scan the list of keywords that people use in the course of finding the Lean Blog. It’s sometimes interesting (I think) to share some of those here. The most popular current terms aren’t surprising: lean manufacturing, leanblog, lean…
Seth Godin’s Bad Toyota Experience
Seth’s Blog: Good is not almost as good as great One of Toyota’s weak links, at least in the U.S., has been their dealer customer service. Jim Womack referred to this in our podcast last week and now business/marketing blogger…
Correcting a GM Assembly Line Story – Did GM Cars Really Go To “Minor Repair” or “Major Repair?”
In the past, I’ve referenced a story I had heard about a GM plant in 1980’s where the “completed” vehicles went to one of two areas: “minor repair” or “major repair”, the implications being that the factory relied on inspection…
China or Mexico? Is Lean an Alternative?
Winding Road » Archive » Japan Report: Toyota To Build 8th Plant In MS, But We Hear No. 9 Is Already In The Works… Rumors are already going around about the NEXT factory that Toyota will build in North America.…
Two Years of Lean Blogging
Lean Blog: Misunderstandings About Value Stream Mapping, Flow Analysis, and Takt Time The link above is my first blog post, from January 2005 (back when the blog looked like this). I let the blog “birthday” slip by again this year.…
WSJ Interviews LaSorda
Tom LaSorda Plebeian Prince (WSJ) Here is a new interview with Chrysler’s Tom LaSorda, a lean leader who has been featured often here on the Lean Blog (some earlier posts here). LaSorda is spending a lot of his time at…
Boeing’s "Elegantly" Screwed Up Supply Chain
I was waiting on Evolving Excellence to post on this, so read their post first, but I had to chime in (original WSJ article here). Here’s another dumb quote the E.E. folks didn’t point out: “Some people may say this…
