The $1 Trillion Lean Health Care Opportunity
28 January 2009
Pretty stunning figure, eh? Also pretty easy to achieve, if we just think very slightly out of the box and make a commitment. Most people continue t…
28 January 2009
Pretty stunning figure, eh? Also pretty easy to achieve, if we just think very slightly out of the box and make a commitment. Most people continue t…
27 January 2009
Over the past several years we've been pounding on Detroit for building absurd amounts of excess capacity, often in response to how a "sale&q…
26 January 2009
Containerization is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs in the development of modern logistics and supply chains. The ability to effi…
25 January 2009
Those of us in the lean world know the power of visual controls to convey information, metrics, and methods. But can the design of the visual control…
24 January 2009
This week we take a journey back in time to see a Porsche factory in the 1960's.…
23 January 2009
This week's Examples of Excellence brings us a "Small Improvements" board (err... window), where small improvement ideas are posted and…
22 January 2009
A short blurb in yesterday's Wall Street Journal tweaked my sensibilities yet again. Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson braced investors for…
21 January 2009
We've talked a lot about Boeing over the last few years, from deriding the supply chain convolutions that created the need for Rube Goldberg contr…