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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Transforming With Lean
Dave Gleditsch, Chief Technology Officer, Pelion Systems, makes many excellent points in: Transforming Your Business To Lean: Lessons Learned [the broken link was removed]: First and foremost, we should always keep the customer at the forefront of the planning and … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles, quote
Tagged Lean thinking, transformation
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Encourage Improvement Action by Everyone
Centralizing decision making is not an effective way to manage organizations. Organizations need to encourage improvement by everybody in the organization. We need to create a system where that is encouraged and supported. However, there can be problems with just … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged curiouscat, system thinking, tips
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5 Million Lives Campaign
IHI has created the 5 Million Lives Campaign [the broken link was removed] in the wake of the successful saving 100,000 lives campaign. Despite the extraordinary hard work and best intentions of caregivers, thousands of patients are harmed in US … Continue reading
Toyota’s Nick Dieltiens Discussing Lean Ideas
Another YouTube video on Toyota Management (produced by a software vendor selling to Toyota Europe): Toyota’s Nick Dieltiens Discussing Lean Techniques. He is responsible for strategic planing for Lexus Europe and was previously for the lean operations office for Toyota … Continue reading
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Toyota Business Webcast
[The video was removed from YouTube] Interesting, 4 minute, segment on Toyota management practices from a business TV show. via: Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog [the broken link was removed] Related: New Toyota CEO’s Views – What drives Toyota? – … Continue reading
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Top 10 Manufacturing Countries
The newest data from the UN* confirms most of the recent trends in manufacturing output – most notably that China continues to grow dramatically. The data also shows a stagnation in USA manufacturing output over the last several years, though … Continue reading
Posted in China, Data, Economics, India, Manufacturing
Tagged China, economic data, economy, Manufacturing, USA
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Game Theory Management
Interesting article on applying game theory to business decisions. Game theory is a tool that is not often used. Though most organizations are probably better off improving how they use the rest of their management tools, it is fun to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Quality tools
Tagged Data, evidence based management, Innovation
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Innovative Marketing Podcast
This podcast on Lego Mindstorms NXT, Lead Users, and Viral Marketing [the broken link was removed] is interesting. The discussion does a good job of explaining how factors like web 2.0 and “open source” can allow business to operate in … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Fun, Innovation, Science
Tagged Innovation, marketing, open source, Systems thinking
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Toyota’s Real Secret?
Well actually it isn’t a secret – it is in fact the Toyota Production/Management System. Maybe, if people assume the TPS is about improvement in the factory alone, then they could miss the true importance as the management system that … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Manufacturing, Systems thinking, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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It’s Easy Being Lean
Nice article, nice title too, a bit overoptimistic maybe but still nice 🙂 – It’s Easy Being Lean [the broken link was removed]: The program advocates lean manufacturing, whose main tenet is that the processes used to produce things can … Continue reading
