Tag: Lopez

Hyundai’s Definition of Quality

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Business Week Articleby Mike LopezBusiness Week ran an article about some of Hyundai's recent problems. One of them seems to be a misguided quality...

Leaner Carmakers = Higher Rental Car Prices

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by Mike LopezA perfect example of a locally optimized system. According to an article in Businesweek, car rental firms have benefited from a "subsidy"...

Calling Out to All Lean Scientists

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by Mike LopezAre you a scientist practicing Lean in your research? Are you trying to apply Lean to your research? We need to talk....

Lean Outsourcing

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By Mike LopezA Bay Area-based global outsourcing expert, Mark Zetter, and HP's former worldwide manufacturing education manager, Eric Olsen, Ph.D., have written a...

Lean and Six Sigma Behaviors

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By Mike Lopez:Before Lean, many of the activities that are presently structured as Lean projects used to take place anyway. They flew under corporate...

Lean in Science

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by Mike LopezLean in Science. Cookie cutters are really good at cutting cookies, but you can't bake a cake with them. This is my...