The Best Lean Companies for 2008
25 November 2007
Earlier this year Mark over at the Lean Blog did a poll of the "Best Lean Companies." After over 800 votes the results were pretty much as e…
Fun With Statistics, Compensation Edition
25 November 2007
Many of us have long been struggling with helping employees understand the confluence of benefits and compensation. Straight wages are the most obviou…
Toyota and the Power of People
24 November 2007
The past week has seen a flurry of articles on the problems Toyota has been facing as it surpasses GM for the number one spot... in sales. As a side n…
Lean is Not a Metric
21 November 2007
Earlier this week our friend Mark Graban over at the Lean Blog penned what I consider to be a very important post on "measuring leanness." I…
Update on the Battle
21 November 2007
Although it's relatively unrelated to any important message, we've enjoyed watching the battle between SAP and Oracle, aka the false gods of t…
Ginger, Toys, and What Else?
19 November 2007
The Wall Street Journal this morning has a front page article detailing the long and convoluted supply chain that brings ginger from small farms in Ch…
Lean Motivational Posters - From AME
18 November 2007
Walk into just about any workplace these days and you'll find the same motivational posters, with ubiquitous themes like "synergy," wha…
Global Splints
15 November 2007
Once again we've come across a great example of a company that knows how to be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories, even in a relativel…