One Size Doesn't Fit All
26 July 2010
Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work practices - like th…
A Tale of Two Companies
19 July 2010
Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a few questions abo…
Cafeteria Lean
16 July 2010
Like a lot of companies, Nissan approaches lean like the woman who orders a double cheeseburger, chili cheese fries ... and a Diet Coke ... approaches…
Who Educates The Investors?
14 July 2010
So a guy named Mark Selway is brought into the Boral Company - a big global building products company based out of Australia - to turn things around.…
When Work No Longer Has Value
12 July 2010
Joe Weisenthal has been a financial guru since he got out of college - in other words has never actually done an honest day's work in his life - a…
Lightning Versus Lightning Bugs
9 July 2010
The formula for success is to identify value as the customer defines it, and focus your efforts on enhancing that value, while eliminating efforts and…
Special Excellence
7 July 2010
Most students of lean know that Toyota gives much of the credit for their manufacturing approach to Henry Ford, and for very good reason. Ford's T…
Management Trumps Culture Every Time
6 July 2010
There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leadership. BP boss Ton…