Beyond Manufacturing

So much brainpower... what if it could have been put to good use?  We've all come across the laborious scientific studies that conclude the patent…

Finally back home and ready to start regular blogging again.  But yesterday I realized that blogging, or even thinking about blogging, can be physical…

A few months ago I told you about how my wife was training to run a marathon.  She is running with the Team in Training group, which is a fundraising…

First off, family, and friends, no we DO NOT have anything to announce.  Believe me, we enjoy our lifestyle (and our sleep) and our kids' names ar…

It's Saturday, and many of us are looking forward to eating out.  Actually my wife and I basically eat out every night anyway, so it's no big…

No, not news about lean, but lean applied to the news business and specifically newspaper publishing.  Today's Wall Street Journal has a couple le…

5S isn't just for screwdrivers and hammers anymore. Some people see 5S as just a matter of physical cleaning and organization of one's worksp…

A hat tip to our friend Jon Miller at Gemba Panta Rei, who pointed us to a few articles on how Wisconsin is pushing lean... both lean government and s…