You, too, can be like AutoNation
10 February 2007
Friday's Wall Street Journal featured an article on how the CEO of AutoNation, Michael Jackson, is fed up and won't take it anymore. He's…
Virtual Quality is Hard to Beat
8 February 2007
There's a new market of 3.4 million people just aching to spend money on goods and services. It's growing over 50% a year, is easily accessibl…
Venn Lean
1 February 2007
Every now and then I happen upon a blog or website that is just a little different... and often the result of a stroke of genius. Such is the case wit…
Evolving Excellence and Lean Printing
31 January 2007
A few months ago I was approached by a couple publishers interested in turning our best blog posts into a book. I guess some of our writing is interes…
Toyota Optimizes Military Supply Chains
21 January 2007
Today's issue of Federal Computer Week gives us another story about how the U.S. military is turning to lean manufacturing methods to improve oper…
Lean Boomtowns
19 January 2007
I came across a rather unique blog yesterday while mindlessly surfing the net during a flight layover. BoomtownUSA by Jack Schultz is about... you gue…
A Myriad of Misleading Metrics
15 January 2007
Last Sunday's issue of Parade, that rather cheesy newspaper insert that predominantly deals with important news from the world of Britney Spears a…
Blog Tag: 5 Things You Don't Know About Me
21 December 2006
Be forewarned, this has nothing to do with lean manufacturing. Several of our blogger friends are engaged in a game of "blog tag," where we&…