Another Strategic Problem Solved With A #2 Pencil
23 May 2006
Here I go bashing software again. Really, I think computers are great tools. I obviously use one quite often to write the blog. I use one even more…
The Manufacturing Odyssey
23 May 2006
I spend a lot of time reading about lean manufacturing, looking at what companies are doing - both successfully and not so successfully - and looking…
A Very Short Year
22 May 2006
A year ago this month, my article "Shingo's Know Why" was published in Superfactory, marking the beginning of an enormously rewarding re…
Benchmark This
19 May 2006
It's time to jolt everyone out of their lean rut. I have spent most of the week being pulled into the insignificant details of lean - whether the…
Draggin' The Execs To The Altar
18 May 2006
Sometimes people struggle with my application of the English language, and, in fact, some people find great entertainment value in running my phraseol…
Stop The Presses
17 May 2006
You gotta hand it to the boys at Wharton. They sure are way out there on the cutting edge of management thinking. It seems fitting that in this 60th…
They've Taken Over
17 May 2006
America has been taken over; but not by the Japanese, illegal Mexican immigrants or the Chinese, and certainly not by Al Queda. No, the invading army…
Trading In The Sloan Model At Ford
17 May 2006
I think I am on the verge of learning the hard way a lesson that I have learned many times over, but keep forgetting. My gut reaction when chaos brok…