What's the Big Deal With Service Lean?
29 November 2005
"In its most basic form, lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization's operations, where wa…
Required Reading
28 November 2005
Got a boss who thinks that lean is hype, or that it doesn't have anything to do with the overall business - just the factories? Are you buying any…
Lean and the EPA
27 November 2005
I've been working on a long term project to compile information on lean government, and recently came across an interesting series of web pages at…
Implement Lean, Whether Your Employer Is Or Not
23 November 2005
It is probably pretty hard to find reasons to be thankful if you are one of the 30,000 GM employees whose head is on the chopping block right next to…
A Few More Items You May Not Know - Or Want To
22 November 2005
Fire in a Toyota plant yesterday - actually a supplier plant, but you know how that works - the name of the supplier is Toyota Auto Body and the Toyod…
Old Generals Never Die, They Just Fade Away
21 November 2005
I have to confess that my criticism of Delphi and others in the automobile industry have been as much emotional as logical. I grew up in a manufactur…
Getting Square With The Families
19 November 2005
It's time to clear the air about family owned manufacturers. The fact is that most of them are very well managed and much leaner than anything Wa…
Ah, The Estate Tax Again
18 November 2005
I fired another shot at the effort to repeal the Estate Tax again in the middle of the blog "Missing A Few Rungs On The Corporate Ladder" an…