Brewing Up Some Manufacturing Tea
25 August 2010
"People are making a ton of money off of us and we're making nothing off of them."That quote from an unnamed woman from Chicago squarely…
Shingo - Another Ranter Weighs In
20 August 2010
None of the contributors - either bloggers or commenters - to Evolving Excellence, and no serious lean student anywhere would condone an organization…
Rounding Out The Week
20 August 2010
In Philly They're Partying Like It's 1979 Yesterday Irish reader Simon Cunnane fired up his DeLorean, cranked it up to 88 miles an hour…
Abuse of Entrusted Power for Private Gain
18 August 2010
Thanks to Joel Lown from the U of Tennessee for this article from Knoxvillebiz.com about a local company called Bailey Hydropower that outsourced manu…
Retail Is Starting To Figure It Out
17 August 2010
There is a big Walmart distribution center not far from where I live in rural Illinois. You can see it here. You can also see that all around it are…
Great Tool For A Great Cause
12 August 2010
Ever since I started doing the One Day Assessments about a year ago I have been getting hit with people asking how I can possibly evaluate so many asp…
Jolly Old England - The Innovation Nation
10 August 2010
A little over two years ago the British Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, said: "We must make the UK the b…
A Consultants' Oath
9 August 2010
I came across this story of a Who's Who of world class offshore outsourcers - GE who trashed over 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the US, Motorola w…