If you are reading this on or about the publishing date noted above, and you have visited us before you will notice some changes to the design of these pages. It looks something like this at the moment, but changes are afoot.

Most of the changes are graphical in nature (centering the page, changing spacing between graphic elements) but you can expect to see some functional changes as well.

In the "shameless plug" category we will be doing our utmost to promote Taiichi Ohno's great book Workplace Management which will return to print in English in early 2007. Look for other other book projects we'll take on at Gemba Press in the top right of this blog.

Feed readers seem to be more common and easier to use, so on the lower right of the page we'll include a selection of these.

Under the Archives section we will add a "Monthly" category for those who want to search by month.

On the lower right we will add links to the blogs that we appreciate for their contribution to the conversation and kaizen and all things Lean. These include Curious Cat, DailyKaizen, Evolving Excellence, Fashion-Incubator, Got Boondoggle?, Kaikaku Blog, Lean Blog, Lean Builder, Lean Executive, Lean Insider, Lean Reflections, Lean Services Blog, Learning About Lean, Productivity Cafe, Reforming Project Management, Shmula, Thinking for a Change and TPM Log, for the moment.

The search function was broken for a while, and now it is fixed, though it seems slower. We moved our blog to a new server and this caused some wrinkles we are still ironing out.

And last but not least, we want your kaizen suggestions on things that would make this blog better. Leave a comment.