Kevin Meyer

And all this time we thought that decisions arose consciously by thoroughly evaluating the data and coming to a conclusion. Maybe not. Fishing in the…

We often push the fact that manufacturing is expanding in the U.S. and it really is possible to compete globally from U.S. factories... even in low ma…

A couple months ago we compared Costco to the "lean" corner store, deriding the big box mentality of purchasing in bulk to supposedly save m…

We've talked a lot the last couple weeks about outsourcing and offshoring, whether driven by a lack of understanding of real-world economics, the…

Several short news blurbs on various companies implementing lean manufacturing have been filling up my tickler file, so let's do a quick roundup.…

I guess you could say the lemmings are coming home to roost, or some such disjointed metaphor. A few weeks ago we told you how high fuel costs are dri…

We often discuss how people are worth more than the cost of their hands. Their brains contain knowledge, creativity, and ideas which, leveraged well,…

I'm generally not a big fan of Harvard Business Review articles, believing many of them to be a bit too detached from reality. However last week t…