Beyond Manufacturing

Just a quick heads up.  Our friend Karen Wilhelm at Lean Reflections is continuing to tell us about her first-hand experience with welfare waste as sh…

The post on Welfare Waste a few days ago apparently touched a nerve with many readers.  I've received well over a dozen emails in response, almost…

If you're a regular reader looking for more insight on manufacturing excellence, leave now.  If your search engine took you here and you're wo…

Our good friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog recently posted a first-hand account of an encounter with welfare waste. She hit one of my…

Many lean blogs, including ours, have written about how the military is embracing lean to improve efficiency and effectively stretch their budget doll…

Last month we talked about the power of chaos and one piece flow in Italian traffic.  By not having (or obeying) traffic signals, Italian traffic move…

I just returned from a couple weeks of R&R in Italy, and it looks like I have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up on.  Last year while visiti…