The Week in Lean
10 March 2007
I make a point of bookmarking various lean-related stories I come across. Some of them provide an interesting take on the subject, some are of compani…
Mother Nature Teaches a Lean Lesson
9 March 2007
Columbia Aircraft lays off 59 employees. On the surface not a unique story as unfortunately many companies are laying off... and even more are hiring…
Heavy Heads of Consultants
7 March 2007
I read a lot of blogs each day, probably well over 100. Using an aggregator like Bloglines or even the new Google feed reader makes it actually fairly…
Outsourcing Knowledge
6 March 2007
A couple weeks ago we told you about transnational flights of knowledge created by short-sighted government tax or regulatory situations. Highly-skill…
Return on Talent
5 March 2007
Regular readers know that a recurring theme in this blog is the oft-forgotten "respect for people" pillar of lean manufacturing and the Toyo…
Lean Won't Work Here!
3 March 2007
How many times have we heard the phrase "lean manufacturing won't work here, we're different!"? More times than I can count, from pe…
Airbust?
2 March 2007
Through a rather amazing political confluence, Airbus' CEO Louis Gallois announced approval of their new Power8 restructuring plan. We've chro…
Lean and Globalization in the Auto Wars
1 March 2007
The BBC has been pushing the lean impact of the auto wars over the past few days. Two days ago they had a story on The Triumph of Lean Production comp…