Sep 062009

100

Lean marks the 100th daily entry post for this blog. Yay, me!

To mark this occasion, let’s look back to those 100 posts and see if we could find something interesting.

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Sep 062009

The Machine that Changed the World, one of the first books that introduced lean to the mainstream

As mentioned in the previous post, Deming influenced a number of 21st century management techniques. Most of them have already ascended to buzzword status like “Six Sigma” and “Total Quality Management (TQM)” and should be familiar to those working in corporations and bibiliophiles browsing books in local specialty bookstores.

Instead of enumerating and discussing all of those approaches to management, I’ll just give an overview on the management technique that encompasses most of them: Lean.

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