EuroLogistics Magazine – “Gemba za oknem” by Joseph Paris
“Gemba za oknem” (Lean Management), by Joseph Paris published in the October/November 2012 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.

“Gemba za oknem” (Lean Management), by Joseph Paris published in the October/November 2012 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish.

“Lean jest podróżą” by Joseph Paris published in the October 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF “Lean is a Journey” – Original article in English. Download PDF
Background What is lean? The majority of people when asked this question reply “waste elimination”. This is true. However, Taiichi Ohno’s original definition of lean was “the complete and thorough elimination of waste to reduce the timeline from receipt of customer order to delivery”. To achieve this more complete definition necessitates the creation of product…

The art of debate has devolved. No longer is it used as a tool of discovery, understanding, reconciliation, and progress. Today, it is a tool used to beat one another into submission – with the wholesale surrender of the beliefs and values held by one party over the other being the goal. What’s worse, the…

This article is provided courtesy of theleanmag, a content partner of the Operational Excellence Society. What I like most about “Lean” or Kaizen is that when you apply it in the correct way and in the way it usually was designed to be implemented, you can make people’s work easier and less stressful. To me that…

Let’s face it, nobody likes that tangled web of cables hanging underneath your computer desk or around your television set. Well, thanks to glorious technological advancements in the form of Gigabit Wi-Fi, this might soon be a problem of the past. Of course, electronics still need to be plugged into power sockets, but the means for delivering…

Reuters reports: Foreign banks that once treated Russia as virgin land where easy money could be made are now finding it a cut-throat market -tougher than some bargained for. While some players are thriving, many have found Russia’s banking market too hard to crack, meaning they’re rife with credit, legal and corruption risks. With this being said, Russia…