Looking Lean vs. Being Lean - It Begins With Leadership and Culture
9 January 2006
Over the past few months Bill and I have written several posts on the difference between looking lean and truly being lean. Most of the discussion beg…
Carnival of Lean Leadership - January 2006
8 January 2006
The holidays have been a busy time for all of us, but bloggers kept on posting. Here we go again with some of our favorite lean and leadership posts.…
Waddya Mean by 'Failure'
4 January 2006
Jon Miller from Gemba Panta Rei and Karen Wilhelm from SME, a couple of very good lean thinkers and bloggers from whom I learn a lot, reacted to my &#…
Pogo Was Talkin' About Me
3 January 2006
What do you say we make a New Year's resolution - all of us in the lean community - that we (especially me) spend a lot more time in 2006 looking…
Lean Manufacturing in the Home - Some New Year's Resolutions
31 December 2005
I'm sure I'm not unique in the world of lean manufacturing professionals in that I return from the office every evening and see lean opportuni…
Hoist One For Alex
29 December 2005
The month of December should not come to a close without manufacturing folks across America taking a moment to raise a toast to Alexander Hamilton. It…
Lean Manufacturing Needs Lean Retailers
27 December 2005
If the leanest possible manufacturer of consumer products approached Walmart, Target or Kmart with the proposition that they could provide very low co…
Keep an Eye on Iraq
25 December 2005
Over the past several months I’ve noticed an increasing amount of Superfactory activity originating from Iraq. Several university students have reques…