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Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 2

By Jon Miller - December 16th, 2008

I have seen the future of logistics, and it is green. Today we visited a distribution center that supplies Toyota. The lean logistics system supports multiple deliveries to the assembly plant each hour using mixed loads, milk runs, kan

Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 1

By Jon Miller - December 15th, 2008

The last few weeks haven’t been very productive ones for writing blog articles due to travel between the US, UK and Japan. However the interaction with clients and changes in scenery have been good stimuli for future article idea

Bathroom Lean

By Ron Pereira - December 9th, 2008

Here’s a fun question for all you male lean thinkers – in order to streamline the morning bathroom practice of showering, shaving, and brushing your teeth – what is the “leanest” way to go about it. Do eac

If Blame Helped Solve Problems…

By Jon Miller - December 5th, 2008

…the interview with Newt Gingrich on Fox News would be a brilliant way to get the Detroit automotive companies out of the trouble they are in. Here is Newt Gingrich taking the bait and laying the blame, making a troubling and com

$34,000,000,000

By Jon Miller - December 2nd, 2008

Sigh. Chrysler wants $7 billion. They asked Congress for this taxpayer money in a 14-page document. I bet they could do it for $500 million if they only took the time to give the PDCA wheel a few turns and put their proposal on a singl

PDCA is About Not Telling Lies

By Jon Miller - December 1st, 2008

This circle doesn’t lie. In fact one could say that used properly, it is a truth-generator. In a section discussing problem solving, experimentation and PDCA, the book Extreme Toyota by Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu and Hirotaka Ta

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

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 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

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