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I was listening to Alan Robinson present last week at the Lean Systems Summit about the power of “small ideas.” Alan wondered aloud why so many..
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August 18 , 2011.
Lean Rock Stars
In December, I took my son, Ben, to an Edgar Winter concert at a Worcester, Mass theater. Do you remember Edgar Winter? A tall, lanky dude who in the..
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August 11 , 2011.
Lean Government
In the spring of 1989, Shigeo Shingo addressed the 14th annual Productivity Conference at Utah State University. On this occasion there were seven..
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July 29 , 2011.
Too Big To Succeed?
It’s now been about four years since the Dow began its precipitous decline, and about three since the invention of the expression “too big to fail”..
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July 22 , 2011.
Insignificant Digits
Significant digits, the number of digits to the right of a decimal point that are warranted by the accuracy of the means of measurement, are a..
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July 12 , 2011.
Reflections on the American Revolutions
As I watched Keith Lockhart conduct the Boston Pops to celebrate America’s birthday on July 4, another revolution that was occurring around the same..
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July 06 , 2011.
Guillotine
One of the more dubious outcomes of the French Revolution was the standardization of guillotining as the sole (and oft-employed) manner of capital..
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June 22 , 2011.
Lean Pretenders
I was listening today to a song from The Platters (there are just a few of you who will remember that group) that was the inspiration for this post:
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June 13 , 2011.
A Supervisor's Greatest Discovery
The following is a true story but told with time compression – a nine month period shortened to three – in order cover the events in less than two..
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June 06 , 2011.
Asset Artifacts
In 1980, an ASRS at my company was the showpiece of a new plant, its capability for high-density automatic storage and retrieval of inventory..
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May 25 , 2011.