The Root Cause of Email Overload
10 March 2008
Our friend and occasional guest blogger Dan Markovitz has often written about the problems associated with email overload. But he has just come to a…
Boeing: Whiner Extraordinaire
9 March 2008
Somehow the entire month of February slipped by without us having something to say about Boeing. Regular readers know that for the last two or three…
New Lean Manufacturing Training Products
9 March 2008
It has taken us a bit longer than expected, but over the weekend we added several new lean manufacturing, lean office, and general lean enterprise tra…
Globalization and Tuscany's Hill Towns
6 March 2008
A couple years ago I spent a few weeks exploring Italy with my wife and another couple... and my mother in-law. I quickly found that my favorite part…
The Worker as National Asset
6 March 2008
Rod Hunter has a good column this morning titled The Democrats and Trade. I purposely won't delve into the political side of the article, althoug…
Building an Empire Takes Time
5 March 2008
The short time horizons of most public company investors have long dogged lean manufacturing turnaround efforts. Real lean takes time, measured in ye…
Onshoring: Bucking the Trend
4 March 2008
Regular readers know that onshoring has been a favorite topic of ours. Swimming upstream against the flow of lemmings chasing low labor costs around…
February Results for the Superfactory 20
2 March 2008
February was an interesting month for the Superfactory 20 group of lean manufacturing company stocks. Roche completed its acquisition of January's…