Pay Me Now Or Pay Me Later
9 February 2008
This morning I came across a story that immediately raised my hackles since it was titled Lean and Mean. Obviously linking lean manufacturing methods…
Kudos to Cascade Designs
8 February 2008
Green, sustainable, and lean... the concepts often go hand in hand. Coincidentally one of the concepts behind the Lean and Green Summit to be held in…
Half Right... No, Not Even
8 February 2008
Believe it or not, it's actually been a couple months since we've gone into battle with the false gods of the almighty algorithm. Perhaps they…
Lean Public Services
5 February 2008
Lean manufacturing methods are being applied to areas completely unrelated to manufacturing itself... health care, education, office and administratio…
Missed Opportunity Spawns a Competitor
4 February 2008
About a year ago we told you how Boeing had recently spun off part of its Commercial Airplanes group, supposedly to reduce costs and focus on "la…
Just a Bowl of Brains
3 February 2008
We often deride the short-sighted companies that think of manufacturing workers as simply pairs of hands, and then use traditional accounting methods…
More Dangers of Horizontal Surfaces
2 February 2008
Almost three years ago, in one of my very first posts, I wrote about the dangers of horizontal surfaces. Horizontal surfaces have a tendency to colle…
Barring Brilliant Minds
30 January 2008
I'll try to remain politically neutral with this story. One of the great incongruities of the current immigration debate in the U.S. is that we ar…