Beyond Manufacturing

The short time horizons of most public company investors have long dogged lean manufacturing turnaround efforts. Real lean takes time, measured in yea…

We've occasionally touched on how lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methods can be applied to higher education, and our friend Bob Emi…

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 manufacturing methods are being applied to areas completely unrelated to manufacturing itself... health care, education, office and administratio…

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…

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…

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.…

I'm asking for it by writing this post.  I know I'll regret it, but I need to brag and tempt fate a bit. There have been a multitude of stori…