Tag: WSJ
Is it “Real Lean” at Starbucks or “Tayloristic Industrial Engineering”?
Once again, the WSJ has written about Lean at Starbucks (see my last post "Controversy over New Standardized Work at Some Starbucks Stores") in...
Record of Annual WSJ Just-in-Time / Lean Blunders
The Wall Street Journal, sadly, has a long track record of not understanding Lean, as I've written about many times on my blog. There's...
WSJ Wrongly Blames Apple Inventory Problems on “Lean Manufacturing”
OK, so I'll admit I had a case of "rabbit ears" when I took the WSJ to task for calling the doomed BP Deepwater...
Come on, WSJ, Why Drag “Lean” Into It?
While I was on vacation, the news (the BBC World Service, mainly) focused quite a lot on the BP oil spill in the gulf,...
Simplistic Solutions Can Have Unintended Consequences
An editorial written by an American Airlines pilot in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram caught my attention ("Unintended consequences of the Passenger Bill of Rights")....
“Lean Startups” in the Wall St. Journal
I've been really intrigued recently by the innovations in the "Lean Startup" movement. I've been reading Steve Blank's book The Four Steps to the...
New Book Gives Negative Review to Performance Reviews
Hat tip to the WSJ for their review of the new book Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start...
Big News: Toyota and Tesla to Build Cars at NUMMI
Surprising news today from California... from the WSJ. Toyota and Tesla are partnering up!
Tesla Motors Inc. said it is partnering with Toyota Motors Inc....
Surgical Robots are Great, Unless You’re Not Trained to Use Them?
The idea of "surgical robots" is an interesting one. As a Lean guy, I'm naturally somewhat skeptical of technology - not to be a...
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...
A New App to Download, Events to Attend, and a Book...
Today's post is a few Friday odds and ends about a new thing I've been involved, events I'm attending, and a new book I'm...
Did this WSJ reviewer even read “The Checklist Manifesto?”
I just finished Dr. Atul Gawande's latest book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I believe that this book is the single...
