The Root Cause of Email Overload
10 March 2008
Our friend and occasional guest blogger Dan Markovitz has often written about the problems associated with email overload. But he has just come to a…
Building an Empire Takes Time
5 March 2008
The short time horizons of most public company investors have long dogged lean manufacturing turnaround efforts. Real lean takes time, measured in ye…
Continuous Improvement in the Classroom
24 February 2008
We've occasionally touched on how lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methods can be applied to higher education, and our friend Bob Emi…
Marxist Flow?
15 February 2008
Steve over at The Skeptical Optimist is pondering an interesting quandary. I'm stuck on what seems like a flaw in the the basis for marxist/socia…
Lean Public Services
5 February 2008
Lean manufacturing methods are being applied to areas completely unrelated to manufacturing itself... health care, education, office and administratio…
More Dangers of Horizontal Surfaces
2 February 2008
Almost three years ago, in one of my very first posts, I wrote about the dangers of horizontal surfaces. Horizontal surfaces have a tendency to colle…
Respecting Kids Through Visual Management
28 January 2008
Peter Abilla over at the Shmula blog recently described how he uses visual management techniques to help his five kids become productive members of th…
Asking Why in IT
25 January 2008
Thanks to reader Alex for sending me a detailed article on how one IT system administrator used the five whys to solve a network connectivity problem.…