Tag: Edmondson

"Siren Song": Enjoy Increased Confidence and Satisfaction with Wonderware

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by Mark Edmondson This post may be shameless about poking fun at a real software product, but I couldn't resist: ...

Your Mission as Change Agent

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By Mark Edmondson As a lean professional, here are two facts you already know about you and your company:1. Over...

Please Hold

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By Mark Edmondson Seth Godin's (author of Purple Cow and All Marketers are Liars) blog often has pearls of lean wisdom -...

First the V-Pill; Now it’s the V-Chain

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Article LinkBy Mark Edmondson Do you experience lumpy product demand? Do you suffer from "outsourced manufacturing and third-party logistics across a multi-enterprise network"?...

Lean and Outsourcing

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By Mark Edmondson Bill Waddell's post on Evolving Excellence makes a humorous yet tragic point about how lean is too often confused with outsourcing....

Lean Consumption at the Post Office

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By Mark Edmondson Today I went to the local post office to buy holiday stamps and Priority Mail boxes. (An aside: Priority...

Encounters with Peter Drucker

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From Mark Edmondson:Peter F. Drucker passed away on November 11, eight days before his 96th birthday. Since he was a professor at Claremont Graduate...

Two Common HR Practices That Sabotage Lean Initiatives

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Our consulting firm has two HR requirements before we'll work with a client:1. No regular employee will lose their job as a result of...