Tag: Whole Foods
When Following “Best Practices” Is the Real Mistake: What Lean Practitioners...
Eric Ries is best known as the author of The Lean Startup -- the book that gave a generation of founders a shared vocabulary...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: June 28, 2024
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
What’s Going on at Whole Foods? It Doesn’t Sound Like Lean
The chain Whole Foods is reportedly having inventory shortages and morale problems. It sounds like a real mess, but thankfully nobody is calling it Lean. Their "Order to Shelf" system reminds me of "Pull to Order" work that I was involved in at Dell about 20 years ago...






