Lean Won't Work Here!
3 March 2007
How many times have we heard the phrase "lean manufacturing won't work here, we're different!"? More times than I can count, from pe…
Going to the Gemba in Belize
25 February 2007
I'm back. Eight days at the Roberts Grove Inn in Placencia, Belize. Snorkeling on the world's second largest barrier reef, wandering around so…
You Have to Laugh. If You Don't Cry First.
24 February 2007
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article (subscription only) on the way that Home Depot, in the wake of CEO Bob Nardelli's depart…
Lean Data Centers?
21 February 2007
The January issue of The McKinsey Quarterly has an article titled What's on CIO Agendas in 2007. Guess what the top two trends are from an in…
Competing on the Basis of Speed
19 February 2007
A hat tip to Curious Cat for finding a one hour video presentation titled Competing on the Basis of Speed that was given to a group of software develo…
Visualizing the Blogosphere
15 February 2007
A picture is worth a thousand words, and bloggers effortlessly create a thousand words with sometimes reckless abandon. Bloglines, which indexes hundr…
A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs
12 February 2007
There's an article flying around the internet titled A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs by Herbert Meyer (no relation). The original source p…
Marathon Training, The Lean Way
11 February 2007
My lovely wife has decided to train for the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon later this summer. She runs casually and even did the Santa Barba…