November 2008 | Gemba Academy

With Competitors Like These, Who Needs a Winning Business Strategy?

By Jon Miller - November 27th, 2008

Larry, Curly and Moe go to Washington image credit: Wall Street Journal As we are grateful this Thanksgiving holiday for all hard diligent public servants, executives and working men and working women who do their best to keep our econ

Thankful

By Ron Pereira - November 26th, 2008

I’m sitting here at my PC working on a little “project” I can’t wait to tell you all about. In fact, I’ll probably be sitting here well into the morning… but I am definitely not complaining. Anyhow

The Spinning Lady: Part 2

By Ron Pereira - November 25th, 2008

It’s always interesting how a post that takes me 48 seconds to write can create so much discussion! As of right now there have been 28 29 comments left on the spinning lady post… most explaining how she is spinning one wa

It’s a Lousy Time to Implement Lean

By Jon Miller - November 25th, 2008

Author, teacher and our friend Bob Emiliani from the Center for Lean Business Management pointed pointed out an inaccuracy in my post from Sunday on how the Big 3 automotive companies should follow Toyota’s path through bankruptc

The Spinning Lady

By Ron Pereira - November 24th, 2008

OK, are you up for a challenge? If so, which way is the lady spinning: clockwise or counter-clockwise? Leave your answer in the comments if you want to play. And let me just say… don’t be so sure about your answer.

The Big 3 Must Follow in Toyota’s Footsteps to Survive

By Jon Miller - November 23rd, 2008

The Big 3 automotive companies must follow in Toyota’s footsteps to survive. There are three things that need to happen for General Motors, the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler to avoid becoming case studies in how not to run glob

Helping our Friend from Down Under: Part Two

By Ron Pereira - November 21st, 2008

If you had one story to “sell” lean or six sigma to over 1,000 employees what would you say? Well, that’s precisely the situation our friend Gail is facing Down Under. To get the full history of Gail’s story please check out pa

Helping our Friend from Down Under: Part One

By Ron Pereira - November 18th, 2008

Here’s how cool blogging is. A week or so ago I got an email from Petri, a lean practitioner in Finland. His question was so good it inspired this post which stirred up some excellent discussion. Last night we received another commen

Leadership Lessons from the Cheesecake Factory

By Ron Pereira - November 12th, 2008

To celebrate my wife’s birthday, we went out to dinner at the Cheesecake factory. If you’ve never been to the Cheesecake factory you need to go. The menu is massive, the drink selection amazing, and the food is out of thi

Ambiguous Visual Controls: This Way is Up

By Jon Miller - November 12th, 2008

This makes it three for three on scoring photos of ambiguous visual controls during visits to this European country. What could this sign possible mean? A reminder to vertigo sufferers of which way is up? A public service campaign in a

Month: November 2008