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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Saving for Retirement
Our Financial Failings by Neil Irwin, Washington Post: Meet the typical American family. It has about $3,800 in the bank. No one has a retirement account, and the neighbors who do only have about $35,000 in theirs. Mutual funds? Stocks? … Continue reading
Posted in Investing
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Cease Mass Inspection for Quality
Comment in response to, Re-Discovering W. Edwards Deming, a partial quote from that post: Not all of the Deming approach is part of core TPS thinking. In particular, Deming advocated a statistical sampling approach to quality inspection, while Toyota focuses … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools
Tagged Deming, inspection, management, organization as a system, Process improvement
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The Power of Purpose
The Power of Purpose by Rebecca A. Morgan: Constancy of purpose means that quality decisions are not situational. End of month quality is the same as beginning of month. It means that the long term benefit of the organization is … Continue reading
The Skinny on Lean
The Skinny on Lean [the broken link was removed] by Peter Bradley The pursuit of perfection and obsessive attention to detail that characterize Toyota’s lean model are reflected in Menlo Worldwide’s 278,000-square-foot Brownstown facility, known as the Great Lakes Lean … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management Articles
Tagged Lean thinking
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What is Lean Six Sigma?
What is Lean Six Sigma? – slides from a presentation [the broken link was removed] at MAQIN [the broken link was removed] (Madison Area Quality Improvement Network). FYI, I manage MAQIN’s web site [make that, I used to manage – … Continue reading
Not Lean Retailing
Renovating Home Depot [the broken link was removed], Business Week It is always dangerous to make too much of a magazine article, but Home Depot seems to be moving away from lean thinking in the following examples, to me anyway. … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Customer focus, Lean thinking, retail
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Executives Participating in Kaizen Events
The Masco Mapmakers [the broken link was removed] by Bill Waddell Guys from Brasscraft or Morgantown Plastics might go to a Delta faucet plant for the event – and note that these are executives, not factory level folks – that … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Manufacturing
Tagged continual improvement, leadership, lean manufacturing
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