Archive for January, 2009

Lean learning, JIT education, or trial by fire

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Was reading Jim Womack’s latest newsletter yesterday from LEI (linked newsletter content is blank right now, there was a snafu sending out email newsletter also, will probably be fixed later).  In it he discusses the challenge of developing lean leaders, both in the “real world” and through the education system.
Where do the lean managers (the […]

Lean operations is like wingsuit base jumping

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

What?!  Yeah, okay, maybe it’s a stretch.  But bear with me.  Maybe I was desperately searching for a way to include this cool video, but if nothing else, you’ll get to see a really cool video.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
In lean manufacturing, people talk about "lowering the […]

2009 will be the year of lean

Friday, January 9th, 2009

John Shook at Lean Enterprise Institute says lean is "just what the doctor ordered" for 2009 and is hoping for a better year.
Brian Buck expects creativity and innovation to arrive on the scene.
Jon Miller talks about how Tom Vilsack might bring lean to the federal level (hooray!).
Kevin Meyer suggests Toyota could use some of its […]

Lean people on Twitter, anyone up for FriendFeed?

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Hopefully making for some more useful conversation, I’m starting to find some more lean people on Twitter.  I’m starting to connect with people around the world that I otherwise would never meet.  Here they are in no particular order:

Mark Graban: http://twitter.com/leanblog.  His focus is on healthcare and you can also read his blog here: http://www.leanblog.org
Ron […]