Fiddling While Manufacturing Burns
10 May 2010
by BILL WADDELL When I wrote about GE's very late discovery of lean yesterday, a few comments came in and a few emails hit my inbox defending the…
10 May 2010
by BILL WADDELL When I wrote about GE's very late discovery of lean yesterday, a few comments came in and a few emails hit my inbox defending the…
10 May 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a story that is nothing short of flabbergasting, GE has discovered kaizen. After meteorically rising and falling as the best mana…
9 May 2010
By Kevin Meyer As regular readers know, I'm usually not a big fan of the Harvard Business Review, but recently there have been a couple of intrig…
8 May 2010
In this edition of our occasional "5 Questions" series we meet fellow lean blogger Tim McMahon. ------- 1. Who are you, what organization…
8 May 2010
Just a quick note that the Superfactory website has been updated with over 300 virtual factory tours, including my favorite: Beach Beat Surfboards!…
8 May 2010
By Kevin Meyer A common statistic from those that believe health care in the U.S. could be "better" is infant mortality, where in many comp…
6 May 2010
By Kevin Meyer It's Friday, time for something a bit lighter and different. We all know that benchmarking has all kinds of fallacies, from basic…
6 May 2010
by BILL WADDELL One lesson of many I have learned since I started down the consulting trail years ago is that when the management team of a client co…