5 Questions - Meet Dr. Sami Bahri, the "Lean Dentist"
10 August 2009
In this edition of 5 Questions we meet Dr. Sami Bahri, sometimes called "The Lean Dentist," and author of the recently-published Follow the…
Not Exactly a Value Stream
8 August 2009
I've been somewhat amused over the last few days as Democrats try to squelch the mailing of a rather interesting chart purporting to diagram the D…
Missing the Equation on Bonuses
7 August 2009
Ah the evils of bonuses. At least that's what the public has been lead to believe in conjunction with the ongoing financial crisis. And to add fue…
GM's Continued Infatuation With the Top Line
5 August 2009
30 months ago... yes 30, we told you about GM's love of the top line - sales - as opposed to what truly matters. Don't underestimate the impac…
The New "Short Term": 30 Milliseconds
28 July 2009
We often rail against the short-term perspective by traditional investors, especially when lean manufacturing transformations can take years. Financia…
What Non-Interference Really Looks Like
26 July 2009
Several months ago when the government decided to bail out incompetence and distort free market accountability for poor business decisions by effectiv…
Going Small
25 July 2009
A recent article in the LA Times reminded me of one of my posts from a couple years ago where I proposed that people should look for new homes with le…
Google Chrome - A Lean Operation System?
24 July 2009
Most of you know by now that Google is taking on Microsoft on sacred Microsoft turf... the Windows operating system. Just as Microsoft is making a sur…