Companies

Earlier this year Mark over at the Lean Blog did a poll of the "Best Lean Companies."  After over 800 votes the results were pretty much as…

Once again we've come across a great example of a company that knows how to be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories, even in a relativel…

The business "section" of my local small-town newspaper has a regular feature that updates the status of previously featured local companies…

A lot of companies are working on lean these days, and perhaps some of them are your competitors.  Each day Google is nice enough to send me a list of…

Those of us that have gone through a lean transformation or two know that it is hard, very hard.  Probably the most difficult aspect is learning what…

Imagine there was a major, global company.  A company that used to make virtually all of their subassemblies within twenty miles of the final assembly…

Parker Hannifin has long been one of my favorite real lean companies.  As a lucky shareholder, yesterday I received their annual report.  The very fir…

Once again, on the same day, we have an example of how some companies understand what lean is really about, and some don't.  Let's start with…