Things not specifically about lean manufacturing.
Staight left an interesting post on The Whiteboard a couple of days ago: You’ve discussed 5S but Novaces, for example, has a 6S system. I think it would be great if you talked about different consultant companies and their processes. Novaces, it turns out, is a consultancy apparently based out of New Orleans. In the [...]
Murdoch says papers should charge on Web – Yahoo! News Robert Murdoch believes that newspapers will have to start charging people for access to their online editions. That’s well and good, so long as the laws of demand and supply balance at a point where that works. But so far, that isn’t working. In today’s [...]
Steven Spear has an interview on the concepts in his book Chasing the Rabbit on Business Week. He describes leadership very similar to Jim Collins‘ model in Good to Great Spear also has a blog / website at http://chasingtherabbitbook.com
It is summed up in this statement on my wordpress dashboard: Akismet has caught 10,020 spam for you since you first installed it. This contrasts with the 167 comments (including mine) that have been left by actual, thinking people. If I were running metrics, I would look at the ratio of 167/10,020 and see 0.0166, [...]
We have created an entire generation (or two) of managers who are very savvy with cost accounting models. They know exactly how “costs” and “profits” are calculated, and they know exactly what inputs to manipulate in order to make the numbers as good as possible. They know, for example, how “inventory turns” are calculated, that [...]
As you may have noticed, there is a new look. This is the result of finally getting around to upgrading WordPress, and the unintended consequence that the new version “broke” the theme I was using. So I finally found another theme (which is easier than rolling my own or dissecting someone else’s code to figure [...]
I hopped over the water this morning from Beijing to Nagoya. More about that later. But I can say it is just a bit of sticker shock to travel from one of the least expensive places to one of the most expensive places in the span of 2 1/2 hours. Ah, the miracle of jet [...]
I just had the host upgrade my version of WordPress, and you can probably see the results are not 100%. I’m working on it. If you see any problems other than the error message at the top of each post, please let me know. Update 9:30 pm China Standard Time: I have reverted the upgrade. [...]
There is a Wal*Mart here in Beijing. I haven’t been in it. I wonder what they sell in at a Wal*Mart in China…
I encountered a new level of sophistication in comment spam engines today. This one actually hosts a “blog” of its own. The engine parses quotes from other blogs, posts them as comments in those blogs and links back to itself. On its host site, it looks like a “blog” but, in reality, it is nothing [...]