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Koenigsaecker Joins Bodek in Keynoting
Lean Accounting Summit
Lean
pioneer George Koenigsaecker, executive vice president at
Simpler Consulting, will be keynote speaker at this
fall’s
Lean
Accounting Summit in Orlando. Koenigsaecker is
author of the book Leading the Lean Enterprise
Transformation (Productivity
Press, 2009) and is known for his lean
accomplishments at The Danaher Corp. and The Hon Company.
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Executive Summary...
The Hollow American Economy -
A Clarion Call for
Leadership
By Bill Waddell
The
path we have followed for almost 30 years to replace our
manufacturing economy with a service economy has failed
by every significant measure. The trade imbalance
documents the transfer of wealth from United States to
China and other countries at an alarming rate. Ten
million manufacturing jobs have been lost and replaced
overwhelmingly with lower paying service jobs in areas
such as food service, hotel and janitorial work, eroding
the middle class and widening the income gap between us.
The only higher end service jobs to show substantial
growth have been in government and in the financial
services area. The financial service jobs have actually
led to even greater problems as the glut of people in
those jobs have created ever more dangerous financial
mechanisms that contributed quite a bit to our current
economic crisis.
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Advocates Partner to Push Lean Healthcare
The current plans ‘miss the underlying problem.’
By
Tonya Vinas
A new
partnership of the
Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and a leading “lean”
hospital system aims to inject the topic of continuous
improvement into the national debate on healthcare reform.
LEI and the
ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, a lean healthcare
advocacy group connected with an Appleton, Wis.-based
hospital system, said they want to “engage healthcare
professionals in learning
how
to cut costs while improving quality by implementing lean
thinking.”
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