[IT and Productivity] Several MIT graduate students study how information technology affects productivity through plant-level comparisons of product innovation, process improvement, and worker skills.
[Gemba Walk] Productivity Inc. has a handy article detailing five things you should always consider on a gemba walk.
[The Miracle at Ping] A great little case study looking at the golf club maker Ping. They had an extremely ambitious goal, to continue producing their high quality custom fit clubs but reducing the time it too to ship from 14 days to two days. Quite a manufacturing challenge.
[The Importance of the Shopfloor] Read the story of pork pie and sausage roll maker Pork Farms Bowyers as theyinvested significant resources and time into creating its own tailored shopfloor organisation programme.
