Another Roundup - August 2011
12 August 2011
Only DC Can Make S&P Look Smart Standard & Poors - the credit rating folks who just downgraded the United States - are a gang of egg-headed f…
The Siren Song of Patent Protection
11 August 2011
The big pharmaceuticals, (notoriously inept) J&J, Pfizer, Merck, Glaxosmithklein and others are laying off left and right and chattering loudly ab…
It's Just Not Cricket
8 August 2011
in 1894 Bud Hillerich got serious about baseball bats and his father in law's woodworking company registered the name 'Louisville Slugger'…
The Case Against Industrial Policy
8 August 2011
Those who suggest the government should play a stronger role in directing manufacturing endeavors should pause when they look at this - the logo f…
It's Not Unions - It's Feel-Good Environmentalism
7 August 2011
A guy by the name of Harold Sirkin wrote a pretty good piece for Bloomberg Business Week called Made in the USA - and China. What is particularly impr…
Are You Kidding Me???
6 August 2011
Now let's get this straight: GM took $45 billion in tax breaks. It's stock is at the lowest point since the IPO which makes the taxpayers'…
The Others Are Starting to Get It
4 August 2011
Lots of great lean stories are cropping up - too bad few of them are in manufacturing management. And the stories aren't about superficial lean -…
Handguns, Mathematics and Supply Chain Management
31 July 2011
Guns and algorithms have a lot in common. Both are tools that, in the hands of the right person, can be powerful forces for good. Of course, in the wr…