Tag: GM

Two expressions get used often in the lean world, one from Dr. W. Edwards Deming and one from Toyota's Taiichi Ohno. Dr. Deming was...

This article from Detroit's Crain's Business Journal ("Lean machine: Health care follows auto's lead, gears up for efficiency") highlights a growing lean healthcare movement...

Article Link: "Shorter hospital stays through better coordination" Is Lean a global phenomenon, or what? Here is a story from a Korean news website (in...

Calif. to get dose of auto anguish | Detroit Free Press | Freep.comHere's a recent story about the demise of NUMMI, in which, the...

I love it when I have a chance to meet Lean Blog readers and Twitter followers in the "real world." In the past few...

I've complained about this before, it hardly fazes me any more when the media say that GM is going to be "leaner" in the...

Last week, I blogged about an episode where bad news wasn't flowing up in Boeing (or, it's part of a pattern). In my Sunday morning...

After 25 years, GM ditches NUMMI tie-up with Toyota In the news this afternoon: PRESS RELEASE: 2009-06-29 GM Media Statement Regarding GM's Ownership Stake in NUMMI Attributable to Troy...

Toyota Names Akio Toyoda President, Apologizes to Shareholders for Losses This was rumored for a while, but Toyota has formally named Akio Toyoda as the...

The infamous "Jobs Bank" was created in the 1980s to protect UAW members from job losses that would otherwise result from automation and robotics....

A Look at Obama's Auto-Bailout Team - WSJ.comStop me if you've heard that joke before... so here is the assembled team that will oversee...

GM CEO resigns at Obama's behest - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com (via Drudge)I've been calling for Wagoner to resign for years. I wish GM's...