This Week's Roundup
25 July 2011
The tragedy of batch thinking Lean folks spend a lot of time agonizing over shrinking production batch sizes, but transportation batches can…
25 July 2011
The tragedy of batch thinking Lean folks spend a lot of time agonizing over shrinking production batch sizes, but transportation batches can…
25 July 2011
SEXY In an article on CNN - Why big data is suddenly sexy - the CEO of SAS says "For example, we are working with Macy's for markdo…
24 July 2011
The other day I compared the Rupert Murdoch -'I'm not responsible for the utter disregard for ethics that pervades my company; it's all mi…
23 July 2011
When organizations get far enough along the lean journey they inevitably ask the obvious question: Why are we doing all of this cross-functional value…
22 July 2011
A couple weeks ago I told you about how Singapore is finding a solution to transit system capacity problems that doesn't require vast investments…
21 July 2011
"I am Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corporation. I would first like to state that I love cars as much as anyone, and I love Toyota as much as a…
20 July 2011
An old Russian/German guy by the name of Wassily Leontief once said of economists, "We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assu…
20 July 2011
Last week brought us two stories of two companies mentioning their respective lean manufacturing efforts. I thought I'd show you a couple quotes a…