In the News

Respect for People – Support Japan 0
- In the News
- March 16, 2011
Source of Photo : AP The last several days has been consumed with news from Japan after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and devastating tsunami. My company OFS is owned by FEC, a Japanese manufacturer, so I have been in touch with a number of colleagues since this disaster. We have been fortunate that no employees
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Lean for Haiti 0
- In the News
- January 13, 2011
Yesterday, marked the 1st anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. My friend and fellow Lean Blogger Mark Graban has a new project to spread Lean Thinking, a volunteer’s personal story of supporting Haiti in the aftermath, and the awareness of Haiti relief needs. The project is Lean for Haiti. In the truest
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Toyota: Ideas for Good 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- January 10, 2011
Toyota has a new challenge. Ideas for Good takes Toyota’s technologies combined with your ideas to make a better world. Big ideas are bigger than cars. Toyota has proved this time and time again by sharing their big inventions with the world outside of cars. Everybody has a few good ideas, and Toyota wants to help
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Team Selection: Best and Brightest or Not 0
- In the News
- December 21, 2010
I came across this comic the other day and paused. It is really about a stereotype of continuous improvement teams that I don’t agree with. While it shouldn’t matter who we pick from organization for an improvement team or initiative in the begining it does. During the early stages of a transformation the selection of the team
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A Lean Environment is One Where They Present You With Solutions 0
- In the News, Other
- October 19, 2010
I saw this comic at ONEFTE.com that made me pause a little. I know this comic is poking fun at the corporate lifestyle that many experience. But as I reflected on this comic I thought to myself there are places in which this situation is true. In a Lean Thinking organization it is the goal to have empowered
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The Value Of Time 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- October 14, 2010
I use the scheduling application Tungle.me which syncs with my existing calendars for easy scheduling and efficiency. The folks at Tungle.me are trying to understand the needs of the calendar of the future. As part of this they took a look at illustrating what the value of time is: The Calendar of the Future got us
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