Beyond Manufacturing

It's been a serious week... outsourcing, layoffs, and even a comparison of accounting standards. I don't know about you, but I need a break. S…

Two months ago we told you about an article in CIO magazine that basically claimed "lean won't work here." How many times have we heard…

Regular readers will recall that late last year I had an unfortunate encounter with a TV. But today for the first time in a long time I actually sat o…

Leave it to the South Africans to write one of the best articles I've seen detailing some examples of lean healthcare success in the United States…

Over the past couple weeks our friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog has been telling us the story of "lean six sigma government"…

UCLA is no longer going to be in the NCAA basketball championship dance, most likely due to the jinx that our fellow lean blogger Mike placed on them.…

The Airbus A380 is a huge plane destined for the record books... assuming the company can get its manufacturing act together. There is considerable ri…

I read a lot of blogs each day, probably well over 100. Using an aggregator like Bloglines or even the new Google feed reader makes it actually fairly…