The False God of the Almighty Algorithm
15 April 2006
There are two large lean-oriented Yahoo Group message boards, Bill Kluck's NWLean and Shahrukh Irani's JSLean. NWLean was originally started…
The Future of Management... From India
14 April 2006
Over the past decade we've witnessed the rapid maturing of Asian and Indian industrial companies from simple low labor cost assembly operations to…
Regulatory Muda
3 April 2006
As someone of Catonian persuasion, I have a general abhorrence to most regulations. I firmly believe that regulatory interference on a free market wil…
Submerging California
31 March 2006
Sometimes you just have to wonder about the thought processes in large companies. Actually I don't, as I used to work for a Fortune-50 medical dev…
Over-Powered Lean Healthcare
12 March 2006
Pretty much every guy feels the need to own a disgustingly over-powered set of wheels at least once during his lifetime. Perhaps before the kids and…
My, How Things Change!
11 March 2006
Five years ago life was pretty good. I had helped turn around a couple of medical device operations and had executed a rather successful turnaround o…
Investing in Shingo and Baldrige
10 March 2006
Most of us have heard the anecdote that "a majority of Baldrige Award winners have gone bankrupt." I don't know if that's true, but…
Lauren Gets It
9 March 2006
The February 20th issue of Rubber & Plastics News had a front-page article on the lean transformation at Lauren Manufacturing, a custom rubber ext…