Worldandnation: Backlog has veterans waiting for disability claims Here is a sad case of bad flow, an imbalance in demand and capacity, and the impact it has on our country’s injured and disabled soldiers. Nearly 400,000 disability claims were pending…
Wonder Land – WSJ.com: Reading up on the continuing Walter Reed situation (my earlier post on the subject), I saw this in the WSJ this morning: “Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, described the problems at Walter Reed…
The Courier News :: News :: Walter Reed ‘failed’ You may have read or seen reports about the poor conditions for injured soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in DC. A good summary of the sad tale can be found here.…
The Herald-Mail ONLINE Congratulations to the Letterkenny Army Depot for winning its second Shingo Prize for lean excellence. “David Gress, the division chief for the Ground Support Division, said each step of production is limited to 30 minutes. Depot Chief…
Lean Army Video (via YouTube.com)Here is a video highlighting the benefits of apply lean to the Army Materiel Command. Improving turnaround time on equipment repairs helps the troops: Faster, cheaper, better quality, all three of those metrics. Please check out…
TIME.com: Lean and Mean — Jul 10, 2006 — Page 1 So the article isn’t as bad as I thought given the headline. A better headline for my posting here would have been: “Lean and Mean” Army? Lean, But Not…
TIME.com: Lean and Mean — Jul 10, 2006 — Page 1 I haven’t had time to read this yet, but I’ll invite your comments. I’ll add comments when I have a chance to read and digest this. My first instinct…
From the Air Force news service and Google Video, a story about what basically sounds like a week-long “kaizen event” with the goal of reducing waste and increasing airplane availability. Here is a look back at the “Lean Across the…
QW: Freedom from command This might make for interesting reading in conjunction with the earlier piece on a Lean Air Force. Consultant and writer John Seddon highlights some of key conceptual differences between command-and-control management with what is needed in…
There is a memo circulating, dated 11/7/05, from the Secretary of the Air Force, Michael W. Wynne, and General T. Michael Moseley, titled “Lean Across the Air Force”. Here is a link to an image version of the memo (fixed…
