Tag: Edmondson
"Siren Song": Enjoy Increased Confidence and Satisfaction with Wonderware
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
By Mark Edmondson As a lean professional, here are two facts you already know about you and your company:1. Over...
Please Hold
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
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
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
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
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
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...