Tag: LAME

leanblog.org | Lean Blog: Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media I presented yesterday and had a great day (meeting people and learning) with the Iowa...

Supply Chain News: Is "Lean Six Sigma" the Winning Approach to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Improvement?It's easy to get tired of new acronyms and...

Time is short for a full post, so here's an effort to clean out the backlog and to give you some links to check...

Last year, in a fit of creativity, I coined the awkward term "L.A.M.E." -- Lean As Misguidedly Executed or, alternatively Lean as Mistakenly Executed.Either...

To build a better hospital, Virginia Mason takes lessons from Toyota plantsA number of you emailed me about the above article that was featured...

Lean Directions: LEAN vs. LAMEIt's a bit recursive to link to a post that links to me, but Mike Thelen (a frequent comment participant...

General Dynamics workers laid off - SWVAToday.comIt's been a while since a Lean As Mistakenly Executed (L.A.M.E.) sighting. Or, in other words, stuff...

by Dan MarkovitzThe latest issue of Strategy+Business, Booz Allen Hamilton's business journal, features an article on cost cutting. Ordinarily, simple cost cutting flies...

Political Affairs Magazine - High-tech Capitalism and the Class Struggle: You might not want to click on the above link if you don't want to...

GM teaches writers to build it right each timeUpdated: GM *does* do some kaizen in the classWhat we call Lean or TPS, they...

Irony is Beautiful - TrumpetMasterWhy these stories are on a trumpet player message board is beyond me (thank you Google Alerts for finding the...

By Mike R. Lopez:The June 11, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek features a great story about 3M's recent problems with Six Sigma, "At 3M, A...