What Is Discretionary Spending Anyway?
5 August 2010
A Wall Street Journal a few weeks back described how "CEOs Fight To Prevent Discretionary Spending From Creeping Back Up." I have absolutely…
The Power of Ideas
4 August 2010
by BILL WADDELL Last week I traveled close to 400 miles to spend a day explaining Lean Accounting and the Lean Enterprise management infrastructure t…
Pigs, Panic, Politicians and The Wolfpack
2 August 2010
PIGS Perhaps the folks running the big container shipping lines are genuinely concerned about the environment and their carbon footprint. Maybe…
Catching Up On The News
30 July 2010
In a couple of news items of note ... A guy by the name of Chuck Fellows is a candidate for the Michigan state senate. Among the issues that have Mic…
Feel Good Environmentalism
26 July 2010
In a story in today's China Daily ... Rutgers' Chinese solar panels show clean-energy shift "At Rutgers University in New Jersey,…
One Size Doesn't Fit All
26 July 2010
Thanks to Jim Fernandez for sending me this article about Fiat's struggles to get their Italian workers to adopt American work practices - like th…
A Tale of Two Companies
19 July 2010
Company #1 Next week it will be one year since I first heard from a mega-giant, multi-national company everyone has heard of with a few questions abo…
Cafeteria Lean
16 July 2010
Like a lot of companies, Nissan approaches lean like the woman who orders a double cheeseburger, chili cheese fries ... and a Diet Coke ... approaches…