Letting Hype Confuse Intelligence
21 June 2008
Global warming... boy are we hearing a lot about that these days. After dire predictions that last year would be the warmest on record as that was wha…
Questions of Leadership
20 June 2008
Sometimes you just have to roll your eyes in wonder. The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockman…
Fun With Statistics, Overhead Edition
19 June 2008
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we tackle the quandary of published overhead or administrative costs. We commonly use administrative overhead s…
Snoop Dog, Six Sigma Black Belt
18 June 2008
Peter Abilla over at shmula has what will probably be THE six sigma blog post of the year. First I had to get over the fact that he's soon to be a…
Spelling Impacts Perception of Quality
17 June 2008
As of July 1st those of us in California will no longer be able to use cell phones without a hands free device, so I joined the throngs throwing money…
Toyota Puts People First
16 June 2008
We've said it many times, "respect for people" is the most critical of the two major pillars of lean manufacturing. Forgetting this is t…
Poverty-Fighting Free Market Peruvians
15 June 2008
Regular readers know I have a fascination with how lean manufacturing concepts, as well as the free market, can impact the basic human condition. A fe…
Dark Days for Lean Management
15 June 2008
By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…