Clean-Tech Industry Facing Lean Times After Solyndra
The once-booming clean-tech industry is facing hard times, in part because of cheaper natural gas, the effects of the financial crisis, China's growing solar industry and the Solyndra bankruptcy. Reporter Juliet Eilperin, who covers the industry's struggles in Wired 's February issue, explains.
Lean Six Sigma reinvigorated at WSMR
The Lean Six Sigma initiative has been reinvigorated at WSMR through a Continuous Project Improvement Program projected to save WSMR both time and money through 36 individual projects currently ongoing.
Home Repair: Which Jobs Come First?
Lean times call for budgetary triage. Find out which projects you need to tackle first.
Hot 'n' Healthy: Ripped at 68, weightlifter pushes all ages to hit the gym
Ripped at 68 At age 68, Tony O'Connor is as sharp mentally as he is physically. A retired engineer, he has been a competitive bodybuilder and personal trainer for 47 years.
'Haywire': Steven Soderbergh keeps a thriller lean
It sounds a bit like an art student's trick: Can you do a recognizable portrait of someone with 12 lines? With 10? Six? How minimal can you make things, and still make them work? If it's a dare, it's one Steven Soderbergh has accepted.
Home repairs: Which jobs come first?
Lean times call for budgetary triage. But while you should clearly opt for orthodontics before Disneyland, the choice is tougher when it comes to home maintenance.
Quakes Commission probes hotel's lean
The Canterbury Earthquakes Commission is asking why the Hotel Grand Chancellor failed.
James Womack to keynote regional continuous improvement conference
The mission of the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize conference is to build a strong regional Lean network through two days of enriching and inspiring lean education and benchmarking.
A conversation with Zulma Toro-Ramos
Zulma Toro-Ramos had to really lean on her niece to persuade her to become an engineer. Her niece is happy now, Toro-Ramos said, but it can be a tough sell.
Is Apple Truly 'Agile'?
We have always known that Apple is agile, having successively disrupted the music industry, the cell phone sector and the tablet market, as well as itself. But is Apple truly “Agile” in the sense of the Agile Manifesto? Apple is conspicuously absent from the Agile/Scrum/Lean/Kanban conferences. Is it possible that they could be agile, without being Agile?