Rest Well, Peter Drucker
11 November 2005
Peter Drucker died yesterday at the age of 95 and American business lost one of its greatest thinkers and strongest supporters. I am sure glowing obit…
Don't Let Delphi Drag Down the Shingo Prize
9 November 2005
Apparently the manufacturing community should be on a continuous improvement curve, but consultants and Shingo Prize executive directors are exempt. T…
Ohno, Shingo and Bobby Knight
8 November 2005
Kevin's post, "Outsourcing Communication Affects Quality" laid bare the folly expecting quality results from a value stream made up of p…
The Ghost of Sloan
6 November 2005
If I were a Hollywood celebrity, or the subject matter of the Superfactory blog were just politics or other unimportant social drivel, the contents of…
You Need To Know About This
5 November 2005
With surprisingly little noise a watershed event in the 'leaning' of American manufacturing happened this week that everyone of us needs to be…
Malcolm Who?
3 November 2005
Some of the best lessons to be learned from history result from what you can't find. In particular, if you plow through everything Shigeo Shingo…
Stop The Flow of Blood
2 November 2005
Somebody needs to stop these guys before they ruin any more factories. The latest out of Delphi comes from a strategy memo leaked to the Detroit News…
A Few Things You May (or may not) Want To Know
1 November 2005
Just as Kevin Costner magically transformed a corn field into a baseball field stocked with dead Hall of Famers in Field of Dreams, some very lean man…