People in the New Year
11 January 2008
Last week I was one of four business leaders profiled in our local paper. We were asked to describe our business and personal New Year's resolutio…
SMED at 30,000 Feet
9 January 2008
I guess I've been lucky. I've flown maybe twenty segments over the last couple months and every one of them has been within ten minutes of sch…
Lean is Not Lean
9 January 2008
Another day, another company whacking a bunch of people. Knowledge, creativity, experience, and potential ideas being thrown out the window. Kraft Fo…
Forget the Painters, Just Create Artists
7 January 2008
We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…
Parade, Bhutto, and Long Lead Times
7 January 2008
On December 27th the world was shocked by the news of the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. A powerful woman leader, controversial in th…
Good Luck With That...
5 January 2008
German manufacturer MAN has been dipping its toes into the wonderful world of lean manufacturing. At Munich, Germany-based MAN Nutzfahrzeuge—the 13-p…
Congrats AME!
5 January 2008
The next annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence will be held in Toronto this October 20-24. Each of the last several confer…
The Waste of Color
4 January 2008
Those of you that watched the Orange Bowl last night may have seen a rather amusing commercial where a guy walks into a copy store with a stack of bla…