Category Archives: Travel

Common Sense About Key Lean Principles from a Travel Writer

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Adam Zak

My friend David Rowell, aka The Travel Insider, writes weekly about issues related to, well, travel.  He’s not a Lean practioner in any sense of the word.  So when I pulled up today’s copy of The Travel Insider over this morning’s … Continue reading →

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What Customers Value: Can (should?) General Motors Learn from Ryanair?

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Adam Zak

Two apparently unrelated (at first glance, anyway) e-mails I received this morning caught my attention. Jim Womack (Machine That Changed the World, Lean Thinking, Lean Solutions) wrote about how General Motors must repurpose itself before it restructures.  The idea, of … Continue reading →

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