Reflecting on the Lessons from Japan - Part 2
8 July 2010
This week I'm taking a little time to look back on the factories I toured in Japan nearly two years ago as part of the Gemba Research Japan Kaikak…
8 July 2010
This week I'm taking a little time to look back on the factories I toured in Japan nearly two years ago as part of the Gemba Research Japan Kaikak…
7 July 2010
It's been a bit over eighteen months since I went on the Gemba Research Japan Kaikaku Experience, where I visited four companies to learn about th…
30 June 2010
A healthy backlog can be a comforting feeling. Boeing and Airbus rejoice in having backlogs over a decade long. I used to work for a telecom equipment…
27 June 2010
Just in time for a slow Sunday comes a story via one of my favorite e-zines, Reason, telling us about the problems that progress sometimes faces. Even…
25 June 2010
I've long known that face-to-face conversations can be very valuable, especially when you're trying to read emotion and inflection to convince…
21 June 2010
I never thought I'd be writing something positive about an airline, but good efforts require some kudos. Over the last several months I've don…
18 June 2010
By Kevin Meyer While experiencing and exploring the waste of unnecessary complexity, I came across a good article (believe it or not) in the latest M…
16 June 2010
One of the issues that I've been dealing with which created my recent interest in unnecessary complexity is the boatload of projects being juggled…