Archives - 2007
Dec 29 — 2007 In Review
Dec 27 — New Year's Resolution: Simplify and Learn
Dec 26 — The Myopia of the Pessimists
Dec 25 — Merry Christmas!
Dec 24 — Chaotic Furrballs
Dec 23 — Lost in Translation
Dec 22 — Fun With Statistics, Ethanol Edition
Dec 21 — Update on the Candidates
Dec 20 — Lean Diamonds in the Rough
Dec 20 — Throwin' Away the Knowledge
Dec 18 — Happy Employees Create Value
Dec 17 — Skiing to China
Dec 16 — Uh... That IS an Outsourcing Problem!
Dec 13 — Effective Usage or Effective Results?
Dec 12 — Outsourcing... to America
Dec 11 — Flat Agility
Dec 10 — Boeing's Outsourcing Hell
Dec 9 — Lean-Driven Waiting Period
Dec 8 — Poll Update
Dec 7 — Fun With Statistics, Convenient Scapegoat Edition
Dec 5 — Chery Learns
Dec 4 — Yes, U.S. Manufacturing Can Compete
Dec 3 — Toyota Raises the Tide
Dec 2 — Various Angles on Chinese Aircraft
Dec 2 — "Shimmying"? Try a Crowbar!
Nov 29 — Presidential Candidates and Manufacturing Issues
Nov 27 — Offshore Manufacturing Execution Squads
Nov 26 — The Best Lean Companies for 2008
Nov 25 — Fun With Statistics, Compensation Edition
Nov 24 — Toyota and the Power of People
Nov 22 — Lean is Not a Metric
Nov 22 — Update on the Battle
Nov 19 — Ginger, Toys, and What Else?
Nov 18 — Lean Motivational Posters - From AME
Nov 15 — Global Splints
Nov 11 — Chicago Hilton Customer Service
Nov 10 — Ford vs. GM - Who's Really Ahead?
Nov 9 — Kaizen, Shingo, and Norman Bodek
Nov 8 — Competing, Not Complaining
Nov 7 — A Productive Strike
Nov 6 — One Half of One Pillar
Nov 5 — Root Cause Customer Service
Nov 4 — Fun With Statistics, Prostate Edition
Nov 1 — The False God Opens a New Front
Nov 1 — Superfactory Jobs Board - Updated
Oct 31 — Domestic Fangs
Oct 29 — Company Tales
Oct 28 — Harvard's Flying Pigs
Oct 27 — Ruger Drains the Swamp
Oct 26 — Schwarzenegger Leadership
Oct 25 — AME Conference Next Week
Oct 24 — Fun With Statistics, Elderly Edition
Oct 23 — Mish Mash of This 'n That
Oct 22 — County Envy
Oct 21 — Manufacturing News, Fair & Balanced?
Oct 19 — Fun With Statistics, Great White North Edition
Oct 18 — Invisible Competitors
Oct 17 — But Where Are the Fasteners?
Oct 16 — Outsourcing - To Reduce Taxes
Oct 15 — Why Parker Gets It
Oct 14 — Some Get It, Some Don't
Oct 13 — Nobel What Prize?
Oct 12 — Quick Turn Value
Oct 11 — Poverty-Fighting Middlemen
Oct 10 — Sub-Prime Smacks Lean
Oct 9 — Killing a Jewel
Oct 8 — Gingrich: What Works, and What Doesn't
Oct 7 — Stagnant is Not Improving
Oct 6 — IIE Blogs
Oct 5 — Grinstein's Lesson
Oct 4 — Fluff and Project Management
Oct 3 — Suicide by Stick
Oct 3 — Management Improvement Carnival #20
Oct 2 — Granite Pinball
Oct 1 — Fun With Statistics, Divorce Edition
Sep 30 — Creating Obtuse Commitment at GM
Sep 26 — More Misfocus
Sep 25 — More Globetrotting... From India
Sep 24 — Smaller and Even Less Flexible
Sep 23 — Fun With Statistics, Pirate Edition
Sep 22 — Uh, Sorry About the Global Furor
Sep 20 — Fun With Statistics, Mullet Edition
Sep 20 — Perspectives on the Auto Industry
Sep 20 — Lean Couture
Sep 18 — Manufacturing Jobs Board
Sep 18 — Ups and Downs of Manufacturing Employment
Sep 17 — Loving the Home Stretch
Sep 15 — Fun With Statistics, CEO Life Edition
Sep 14 — SAP & Whirlpool... Aha!
Sep 12 — Process Charity
Sep 11 — The Curse of Cheap Metal Shelves
Sep 8 — Fun With Statistics, Garbage Edition
Sep 7 — Outsourcing's Carbon Footprint
Sep 6 — The Entropy of Lean
Sep 4 — The Hyper Evolving Organization
Sep 2 — The Glories of Indian Auto ERP
Sep 1 — Electrons, Be Gone!
Aug 31 — McKinsey Hollows Out Lego
Aug 30 — People, Diapers, and Kegs
Aug 29 — Chinese Best Practices
Aug 28 — Fun With Statistics, Digging Deeper Edition
Aug 28 — Superfactory Needs Your Help
Aug 26 — Lean Accounting Summit In One Month
Aug 26 — Oh Dell Oh Dell
Aug 25 — Dreamliner Gridlock
Aug 23 — Globalization and Fresh Horse Sushi
Aug 22 — Kudos to Marlin Steel Wire
Aug 22 — Private Efficiency
Aug 21 — More Evidence of IBM Being LAME
Aug 20 — IBM Goes LAME
Aug 19 — Counting Economists
Aug 17 — Fun With Statistics, Median Edition
Aug 16 — McKinsey on Lean: Part 5 - Lean in Finance
Aug 16 — McKinsey on Lean: Part 4 - Lean in China
Aug 16 — McKinsey on Lean: Part 3 - Lean in IT
Aug 16 — McKinsey on Lean: Part 2 - Public Sector Lean
Aug 16 — McKinsey on Lean: Part 1 - Overview
Aug 16 — What Unemployment?
Aug 14 — Government Band-Aids
Aug 13 — Lean Healthcare Jitterbug
Aug 13 — Colin Powell on Leadership
Aug 12 — Just In... Time?
Aug 11 — Fun With Statistics, Relativistic Edition
Aug 11 — Lean Software Science
Aug 10 — The More the Merrier
Aug 7 — Shut Her Down...!
Aug 6 — Abboud Takes On Abboud
Aug 6 — The Lean Dentist - Almost Live!
Aug 5 — Lean Filmmaking?
Aug 5 — A Taste of Their Own Medicine
Aug 4 — Don't Forget the Engineering
Aug 4 — Fun With Statistics, Insensitive Edition
Aug 2 — Outsourcing Reputation
Aug 1 — Lean Green Bubbles
Jul 30 — Sweet Lean
Jul 29 — Personal Waste
Jul 29 — Fun With Statistics, Oops Edition
Jul 28 — Steel Blinders
Jul 26 — The Scourge of Quality Fade
Jul 26 — Ask Why, Not Who
Jul 25 — Simplicity and the Customer
Jul 24 — Companies, Putters, and Entrepreneurs
Jul 22 — Kyosei Business Values
Jul 21 — Information Economics
Jul 20 — Fun With Statistics, Profit Edition
Jul 19 — More Lean Companies
Jul 18 — One Square at a Time
Jul 18 — Fun With Statistics, Grandma Edition
Jul 17 — Best Lean Company?
Jul 17 — Globalization and the Venture Communist
Jul 16 — Lean Economic Development Strategy
Jul 15 — Free Market Religion
Jul 14 — Fun With Statistics, Laffer Edition
Jul 13 — Smart? Then Act That Way.
Jul 12 — The Opportunity of Individual Simplicity
Jul 12 — Fun With Statistics, Sicko Edition
Jul 10 — Value is not Price
Jul 9 — Geo-Centric Customer Service
Jul 5 — Effective Squishy Metrics
Jul 4 — GM's Failure Creates Flying Pigs
Jul 4 — Welcome Craig Woll, Oprah and Paris
Jul 2 — Jack Welch Continues to Flatten
Jul 2 — Leadership, Bloomberg Style
Jul 1 — Management Improvement Carnival #14
Jun 29 — Be Careful What You Measure
Jun 27 — The Evolving New Economy
Jun 27 — The Lean Blogosphere
Jun 26 — Lean Healthcare Taking Off
Jun 25 — Less Storage Space Desired
Jun 24 — LAME or Just Plain Ignorant
Jun 23 — SAP and Oracle in the Ring
Jun 21 — Quietly Excellent
Jun 21 — The Opportunity of Crisis at Airbus
Jun 21 — The Lean Dentist
Jun 20 — Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
Jun 19 — Bumping the Hand that Feeds You
Jun 18 — Is Ford the Reason for Microsoft Bloatware?
Jun 17 — The Lean Pantry
Jun 16 — Dings and Gaps of Outsourcing
Jun 15 — Excellent Elevators
Jun 11 — Dabbawallas, UPS, and FedEx
Jun 10 — Organizational Fast Food
Jun 9 — Investing Around the World
Jun 8 — Power Laws and Pull Platforms
Jun 7 — GM Matches Toyota Productivity... So What?
Jun 6 — Design in Process
Jun 5 — A Waste of Intellect... Perhaps
Jun 5 — Outsourcing Cornucopia
Jun 4 — Dangerous Multitasking
Jun 3 — Go Team!
Jun 2 — Looking for MRP Success
Jun 1 — Dell? Lean? Yeah, right.
Jun 1 — Wisconsin's Continuing Lean Push
May 31 — Mulally Culture at Ford
May 30 — Education Destroying Creativity
May 30 — Wal-Mart Bites China Back
May 29 — Pay For Performance and Wage Inequality
May 29 — LAME, but Successful... For Now
May 28 — Knowledge, Safety Nets and Outsourcing
May 27 — Incestuous ERP
May 26 — John Wayne - The Duke of Lists
May 25 — Lean Baby Names
May 24 — Lean, Lean, and More Lean
May 24 — Who Drives Your Bus?
May 23 — Differing Perspectives On Suppliers
May 23 — Chairs of the Month?
May 22 — 787 Dreamliner Built in Ten Minutes!
May 21 — Wal-Mart Learns About Cost... And Value
May 19 — Lean Diets and the Size of Your Unit
May 18 — SAP - Look in the Mirror
May 18 — Faking Six Sigma
May 17 — SAP's Chasm of Complexity
May 17 — My Message to Michael Bloomberg
May 15 — Nucor - Look Over Your Shoulder!
May 15 — Oh Give Me a Break (TM)
May 14 — Lean News Publishing
May 13 — Littered With the Carcasses of Companies
May 13 — Confronting Prevailing Wisdom
May 11 — Demand Quake Isolators
May 9 — Columbia's Meandering Lean Journey
May 8 — Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
May 7 — Wisconsin Drives Lean
May 6 — Taxes Driving Flights of Knowledge
May 4 — The Value in Shrinking a City
May 3 — Lean Coiffes
May 2 — Dreams of Lean Accounting Standards
May 1 — Lean IT Balance at CIO
Apr 30 — What's Left to Outsource?
Apr 29 — A Lesson for Outsourcing Lemmings
Apr 28 — French Organic Offshoring
Apr 27 — Show Me Some Respect
Apr 26 — A Lesson for Layoff Lemmings
Apr 25 — Dreamlifter Sees [Small] Action
Apr 25 — The Bottom Line of Commitment
Apr 24 — Toyota Squeezes By GM
Apr 24 — An Inspiring Lean Tear-Jerker
Apr 23 — China Bites Wal-Mart
Apr 21 — Home Factories
Apr 21 — Onshoring as Competitive Advantage
Apr 20 — Productivity and Offshoring... Again
Apr 19 — Global Opportunities... Domestically
Apr 18 — Symphony or Cacophony?
Apr 17 — Recognizing Excellence
Apr 16 — Dude, It's a Supply Chain Wipeout!
Apr 14 — Stop Complaining and Start Competing
Apr 13 — Lean Healthcare Improvements
Apr 13 — Boeing's Bratwurst Gone Bad
Apr 12 — The Value of a Potty Break
Apr 11 — Learning Lean: Industry Needs
Apr 9 — Secure Supply Chain Value
Apr 8 — Lean Government in Fort Wayne
Apr 6 — Announcing Superfactory e-Learning
Apr 5 — Delusions of Leadership
Apr 4 — Historical Simplicity
Apr 3 — A Missed Opportunity?
Apr 2 — Blind to the Pull Economy
Apr 1 — Ohio State vs. Florida - No Contest
Mar 30 — Counterintuitive Productivity Statistics
Mar 29 — Oracle vs. SAP - Battle of the False Gods
Mar 28 — The Value in Pricing
Mar 28 — The Value in Jobs
Mar 27 — Boeing's Balancing Act
Mar 26 — Furniture Circling the Globe
Mar 25 — The Teaching Leader
Mar 24 — Size Matters
Mar 23 — Even More Lean At New Balance
Mar 22 — A Telling Lean Typo?
Mar 21 — More on Joseph Abboud
Mar 20 — Reminder: Free TWI Webinar Wednesday
Mar 20 — Carlos: Get Some Sleep
Mar 19 — A380 vs. 787 - Batch vs. One Piece Flow?
Mar 18 — Podcast Interview
Mar 18 — Real Lean at CMP
Mar 17 — Greetings Canadian Army!
Mar 17 — Boeing Versus Airbus - On TV
Mar 16 — Southern Fried Lean
Mar 14 — Discussing Onshoring
Mar 13 — Fore!
Mar 12 — Outsourcing Lemmings, Kiwi Style
Mar 11 — That Sneaky Honda!
Mar 10 — The Week in Lean
Mar 9 — Mother Nature Teaches a Lean Lesson
Mar 8 — Heavy Heads of Consultants
Mar 6 — Outsourcing Knowledge
Mar 5 — Return on Talent
Mar 4 — Lean Won't Work Here!
Mar 3 — Airbust?
Mar 2 — Lean and Globalization in the Auto Wars
Mar 1 — Pay for Availability
Feb 28 — High Wage Competition
Feb 27 — Free TWI Webinar
Feb 27 — Lessons From a Deserted Isle
Feb 26 — Stop Whining and Start Competing
Feb 26 — Going to the Gemba in Belize
Feb 23 — Ignoring the Obvious Solution
Feb 22 — Lean Data Centers?
Feb 21 — Dressing Lean: Louis Vuitton Edition
Feb 20 — Competing on the Basis of Speed
Feb 19 — The Politics of Manufacturing
Feb 18 — News From Across the Pond
Feb 17 — Time for a Break
Feb 16 — Flights of Knowledge
Feb 15 — Visualizing the Blogosphere
Feb 15 — Chrysler Learns a Lesson
Feb 14 — Honey I Shrank My MBA!
Feb 13 — A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs
Feb 12 — Marathon Training, The Lean Way
Feb 10 — Danaher's Low Profile Lean Excellence
Feb 9 — Virtual Quality is Hard to Beat
Feb 8 — Wharton Gets It Right On Detroit
Feb 7 — The Culture Side of Lean Manufacturing
Feb 6 — Road Trip to Mequon
Feb 6 — The New GM: Exploited Robots
Feb 4 — GM's Disrespect for... Robots
Feb 3 — What Harley-Davidson Learned From GM
Feb 2 — Venn Lean
Feb 1 — Evolving Excellence and Lean Printing
Jan 30 — Lean Manufacturing Training, Workshops, and Conferences
Jan 29 — Ford vs. GM: Who's Ahead?
Jan 28 — Remember the Humans
Jan 26 — Just Think First
Jan 26 — Damn the Profits, Full Speed Ahead!
Jan 25 — Brazilian Bikinis and Toyotas
Jan 22 — Toyota Optimizes Military Supply Chains
Jan 21 — Diluting Lean
Jan 20 — Finding Time To Innovate
Jan 19 — Lean Boomtowns
Jan 18 — Dressing Lean
Jan 17 — Toyota Shops At Wal-Mart
Jan 16 — A Myriad of Misleading Metrics
Jan 15 — Investing in Lean
Jan 15 — More Problems for NAM
Jan 14 — Jack Welch: Under the Influence
Jan 14 — Companies Mentioned in the Blog
Jan 13 — NCR Follows Whirlpool Off the Cliff
Jan 11 — Hiding the Waste of Inventory
Jan 10 — A Crisis in Global Logistics
Jan 9 — Belugas and Guppies
Jan 9 — Rube Goldberg Takes On Supply Chains
Jan 8 — The Plural of Anecdote is Not Gemba
Jan 8 — Burying the Screw in the Fine Print
Jan 6 — Trials and Tribulations: Auto Show 2007
Jan 5 — Home Depot's Eighth Waste
Jan 4 — Wal-Mart Worships the False God
Jan 3 — Who Is GM's Customer?
Jan 2 — Pushing Misery Up the Supply Chain