Re: A "lean" spin on the fortunes at Ford

Subject: Re: A "lean" spin on the fortunes at Ford
From: "John K. Balor" <balor1999@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:50:52 -0700 (PDT)
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Jim Clauson made an excellent contribution by publishing the article by Womack where he talks about Ford and Lean.  Ford's critisism of Taylor is very good, I think, unlike the usual stupid statements like "Taylor thinking of people as if they were machines" etc (completely wrong of course).  What Womack stresses is that Ford builds on Taylor's insights, adding to the theory of scientific management, just like Shewhart and Deming would add to the theory later on.
   
  John

References:
- A "lean" spin on the fortunes at Ford
  - From: "Jim Clauson, Breakthrough Systems" <jim@jclauson.com>

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