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Ford CEO Mullaly’s First Impressions

By Jon Miller - December 22nd, 2006

In the December 22, 2006 Wall Street Journal article titled Mulally’s ‘First Impressions’ published the letter from the former Lean leader of Boeing and now CEO of the Ford Motor to the employees of the company. He st

The Starfish, the Spider and the Span of Five

By Jon Miller - December 17th, 2006

I just finished reading The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman nd Rod A. Beckstrom. It is a quick read with some interesting ideas. I have a number of issues with the book, and by

Making a Business Out of Organizing (Making You Feel on Top of Things)

By Jon Miller - December 12th, 2006

I came across Productivity Cafe, the blog of Susan Sabo of Organizers, Inc. today. She is an author, speaker and consultant who “helps people feel on top of things by training, coaching, and persuading them to be more organized a

When the Customer Defines Value, But They Define It Poorly What Do You Do?

By Jon Miller - December 6th, 2006

If a customer says “Here’s how I want to do Lean.” and the consultant says “That’s not the right way.” and the customer says “Who’s the customer here?” and the consultant says ̶

One-Hour Low Tech Lean Introduction

By Jon Miller - December 4th, 2006

Today was a lesson for me in just-in-time delivery of Lean training (or Lean Lean training) and also in the value of being prepared. We arrived half a day late to a distribution center where we were asked to give Lean overview training

How to Stay Out of Trouble with Mr. Convis

By Jon Miller - November 23rd, 2006

Gary Convis is the senior vice president of manufacturing in North America for Toyota Motor Corporation. In a November 20, 2006 article in the Lexington Herald-Leader titled New Tundra Plant Just Shows that … Toyota Keeps on Truc

The Water Spider: What’s in a Name?

By Jon Miller - November 22nd, 2006

One of the things that keeps Lean manufacturing from being boring to the amateur linguist is the many odd-sounding words that make up the Lean lexicon. Kamishibai Heijunka Pareto Yamazumi Takt Andon Jidoka Kaizen Pokayoke Gemba And don

Top 5 Things I Learned in China Last Week

By Jon Miller - November 19th, 2006

Here are the top five things learned after a productive week in China: 1. You can’t overstate the value of respecting another’s culture I gave my rudimentary Chinese a workout this time and the results were interesting. Doo

Seeing the Lean in Milton Friedman’s Ideas

By Jon Miller - November 17th, 2006

Nobel prize winner and Chicago school free market economist and author Milton Friedman has just passed away. The impact of his ideas are huge. It ranks with the impact of the ideas of Henry Ford and Taiichi Ohno. Like Ohno and Ford, Fr

Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement

By Jon Miller - October 31st, 2006

Scientist, philosopher and author David Bohm presents challenging ideas on the nature of reality. They are challenging not in that they are difficult (if you are patient with the Calculus) but in that they challenge how we perceive, th

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