Tag: Travel
Hotel Housekeeping Overprocessing, Waste, and Customer Annoyance
I'll try to lighten things back up a bit. I may have written about this before, but as a frequently traveling consultant, the hotel...
You Need Quantity AND Quality
Mishandling Has Spiked Since Liquid Ban Reduced Carry-Ons - washingtonpost.comWith the new security rules in August, the number of checked bags increased suddenly (including...
OK, So It’s Not the "Lean Travel" Blog
I know not everybody travels, so y'all might not be concerned about attempts to see lean (or NON lean) practices in the travel world....
Some Poor Problem Solving
More travel adventures... I woke up this morning and got into the shower. I was surprised that the soap and shampoo...
Some Misguided Error Proofing?
Hilton hotels introduced a new standardized alarm clock that seems to be in all Hilton properties now (including where I am in Midland TX...
Wrong Visual Controls and a Lack of Problem Solving
My travel adventures continued... lack of lean concepts abound. The only highlight in my travel was that former Cowboy great and Heisman Trophy...
Rental Car Return Waste
I observed this at a mid-size city airport yesterday. I think it goes to show that lean concepts aren't common sense and it...
Everyday Lean: Hotels.com
I saw this while researching a vacation. This website has given the user the time saving option of "most popular cities" to avoid...
Materials 5S at a Hotel
As I was walking past a housekeeping storage room at a hotel, I couldn't help but notice that the storage locations were marked on...
Bigger Airline Batches?
Airbus denies report it has plans for standing room on jets - Apr. 25, 2006Ugh, is Airbus really investigating the idea of almost 900...
Hotel Room Error Proofing
This Is Broken - Hotel room warningI saw a large ad in the paper Friday that reminded me of this blog posting (link above)....
Everyday Batch: Rental Car Shuttles
I know the airport isn't normally a bastion of lean, but the Albuquerque airport rental car shuttle bus stood out yeserday, in a bad...