People Chain Management
24 February 2008
The latest Knowledge@Wharton has an intriguing article titled Talent on Demand: Applying Supply Chain Management to People. As the author notes, Sup…
A Little Different: Google Sightseeing
23 February 2008
I'm coming off a hectic week of dealing with some family medical issues, so instead of diving right into lean manufacturing and enterprise-related…
Lego's Outsourcing Adventure, Part Trois
20 February 2008
Over the last few years we've chronicled the travails of Lego, the Danish maker of plastic children's toys. I like the product and have credi…
Fun With Statistics, Fad Edition
18 February 2008
In this edition of Fun With Statistics, we ask you to be careful of fads, especially those driven by popular passion. We all want to be environmental…
Lenovo, and Soon 10,000 More
18 February 2008
Last month we told you how Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought the rights to the IBM computer line, is moving manufacturing facilities out of Chin…
Evolving Excellence in the News
16 February 2008
One of the fun things with having well over a thousand subscribers and several thousand readers a day is that posts from the Evolving Excellence blog…
Marxist Flow?
15 February 2008
Steve over at The Skeptical Optimist is pondering an interesting quandary. I'm stuck on what seems like a flaw in the the basis for marxist/socia…
Could Lean Have Saved Linda?
14 February 2008
We occasionally have the unfortunate duty to report on companies that have met their demise. Often they haven't even tried lean and therefore are…