The Single Greatest Obstacle To Manufacturing Excellence
6 April 2010
Some guy named Rich Campanola was working hard at the Simmons Mattress plant in Agawam, Massachusetts - trying to wrap his mind and the factory around…
Meet Pete Lambie
30 March 2010
Who are you? What organization are you with? What are your current Lean-Oriented activities? My name is Pete Lambie and I work as a consultan…
Hey Rio Tinto: Don't Be Evil
30 March 2010
This is a tale of two companies with very divergent views of their role and responsibility in the world: Rio Tinto and Google. Let's start by poi…
New Definition of Comparative Advantage
4 March 2010
The explanation from those on high for throwing American manufacturing - as well as manufacturing in western Europe and Australia - under the bus is t…
Hold the phone!
1 March 2010
Last week Dan posted a piece about some guys who reinvented the lean wheel over on the Harvard Business Review, and dubbed it M4L4M - More For Less Fo…
Look Down Under For Great Ideas
28 February 2010
I am heading back to the land of kangaroos and koalas soon to partner for a couple of weeks with KAON Consulting and the State of Queensland. In fact,…
The Deadly Sin of Gluttony
25 February 2010
Some day someone will write a book about the thirty year battle between GM and Toyota to be the biggest that, like Otus and Ephialtes of Greek mytholo…
Dawning of a New Manufacturing Age
22 February 2010
Abraham Lincoln talked in parables quite often and one of his favorites was to ask someone, "If you call his tail a leg, how many legs does a dog…