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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

” In the background, also in the early 90s, Boeing was beginning to experiment with things like 5S and “Accelerated Improvement Workshops” (AIW) (aka kaizen events). The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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Whatever it takes: One woman’s story of persistence in West Darfur

World Food Programme Logistics

I see pregnant women delivering in open spaces, having nothing to wrap their babies with once they are born’ Around six months later, in February 2014, I was in a workshop when unexpectedly heavy rains began and brought back the painful memories of that day. Overwhelmed by emotion, I collapsed. However, I always see some hope.