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A3 Report Title: 189 Apologies

By Jon Miller - December 14th, 2005

We don’t manufacture automobiles, but I know a bit about how it must feel when automobile companies issue a recall and have to ask many thousands of customers to bring in their vehicles to fix a flaw they have discovered. We found ou

Lean Food Service in Korea Factory Cafeteria

By Jon Miller - December 11th, 2005

I’ve been a fan of Korean food for a long time, but now I’m also a fan of Korean kitchenware. I’ve always thought the steel chopsticks were particularly a good idea. Here’s my dinner on a washable, reusable dinner tray

The Kaizen Cops Clobber Government Waste in Kenya

By Jon Miller - December 2nd, 2005

I’ve been chuckling quielty to myself for the past couple of days over an article I read. Now that I have internet access, I’d like share it with you. The Kenya News Agency headline screams

Setting the Bridges to Nowhere to the Torch

By Jon Miller - November 17th, 2005

It’s been a good week for Lean government. First Senator Joseph Lieberman says he will bring a “little of your Kaizen attitude back to the United States Senate” while visiting a factory doing Lean manufacturing in Con

Peter Pan, Kaizen and Joseph Lieberman

By Jon Miller - November 15th, 2005

An article in today’s New Britain Herald brightened what was otherwise a rainy, jet-lagged winter day here in the Puget Sound. Connecticut is a hotbed of Lean manufacturing and kaizen activity. Many clients of the Shingijutsu con

Lean Government Update Nov. 9, 2005

By Jon Miller - November 9th, 2005

New Lean Government Champion in Mesa, Arizona A new potential Lean government champion hit our radar today with the appointment of Christopher J. Brady as the City Manager of Mesa, Arizona. Based on the azcentral.com article Mr. Brady

Genchi Gembutsu in Aceh, Indonesia

By Jon Miller - November 3rd, 2005

Indonesia was not high on the list of places I thought I would read about an example of Lean government. So I was pleasantly surprised to find an article on the front page of the November 2, 2005 Wall Street Journal titled After the Ts

How Not to Spend $453 Million

By Jon Miller - October 24th, 2005

Listening to the radio on my commute last week I heard a perfect example of the opposite of Lean government. I’m always bothered by waste but this was truly disturbing. In the highway bill signed this summer there is what is know

Governor Vilsack Brings Lean Government to Iowa

By Jon Miller - October 3rd, 2005

In a TPM Cafe blog entry titled Making Government Work, Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa talks about how he is bringing Lean government using kaizen and other tools. Just a sample from this Lean government blog entry: “We combined fo

Postal Service Provides Model for Lean Government

By Jon Miller - September 10th, 2005

It would be easy to point out how non-Lean the U.S. government has been at city, state and federal levels these last few weeks. We’ve seen examples of lack of decision making, poor logistics, lack of alignment of goals, poor comm

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