Managing Through A Rear View Mirror
20 August 2006
Sometimes it can be pretty hard to tell whether folks are really dumb, or they are actually smart and are just being dishonest. The Mine Safety Appli…
Get Real, Folks
12 August 2006
After having spent far too much time out in the real world lately, I have finally had a chance to drop back into the blog and I am pleased see how abl…
A Touch Of Class
3 August 2006
Believe it or not, I don't enjoy blogging about the sleazy manufacturers who give all of us a bad name, or the charlatans who make a travesty of l…
And Another One Bites The Dust
1 August 2006
Kodak has made it official. Another once great American post World War II manufacturer is officially and completely out of the manufacturing business…
Real Innovation At Last
1 August 2006
Kevin and I have hammered the 'Innovation' fad pretty hard lately. Too often innovation seems to be pursued by companies which have utterly f…
Lean Sigma Innovation
30 July 2006
You can tell that I'm a manufacturing guy without a lick of sense when it comes to marketing. If I were smart, I would change the name of my busi…
Value Your Fellow Travelers
27 July 2006
Way back in the day (a day in 1974 to be precise), Ollie Wight wrote a book called "Production and Inventory Management In The Computer Age"…
Whose Monkey Is It?
25 July 2006
I came across a rather inane article not long ago in which some self-proclaimed expert on supplier development argued that companies should focus on h…