Tag: Wagner

America’s Oldest Bike Company Could Use Lean Manufacturing to Remain the...

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Mark's Note: Today's post is by Andy Wagner, who contributed regularly to this blog from 2007 to 2010. This CNN video caught his eye...

Guest Post: What It Means

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Mark's Note: Here's part 4 of a series by our guest blogger, Andy Wagner. Start reading with Part 1 here. "What lies behind us...

Guest Post: Lean Starts at Home

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Mark's Note: Here's part 3 of a series by our guest blogger, Andy Wagner - a series that started here. Many of us work in...

Guest Post: Not Putting Out Fires

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Mark's note: One more guest post, Andy Wagner following up his recent guest post, "Being the Change." Each morning at work the day starts...

Guest Post: Being the Change

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Mark's note: Today, I'm happy to welcome back an old Lean Blog contributor, Andy Wagner. He takes a more personal turn here than most...

Shop Class as Soulcraft

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By Andy Wagner: The New York Times recently published an essay by Matthew Crawford, based on his new book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry...

Saving the Most L.A.M.E Day Ever

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By Andy Wagner:This summer, I am supervising three interns. The first week one of them asked what "lean six sigma" was about. ...

Where Would I Be Without Lean?

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By Andy Wagner:I've been in industry for a little over ten years now, reading and thinking about lean for at least seven. ...

Lean or LAME at Boeing?

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By Andrew Wagner: My wife, the resident space geek, turned me in the direction of this Boeing Press Release on their new lean "pulse line"...

The "LAME" Cargo Cult and Lean

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I stumbled across a piece Richard Feynman spoke some time ago about "Cargo Cult Science" and couldn't help but extend the analogy to "Cargo...

Everyday Lean: Lean and Kleenex

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By Andy Wagner:I know how much Mark dislikes headlines that rhyme with lean, but perhaps he'll make an exception for this example of everyday...

John Boyd, Lean Fighter Pilot Part II

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Harry Hillaker--Father of the F-16 Toyota's Value Innovation: The Art of Tension Mark has written before about "Everyday Lean", those little examples of error-proofing or kanban...