One Half of One Pillar
5 November 2007
Carl Wright has an article in last month's Reliable Plant magazine ostensibly titled The Correct Approach to Implementing Lean. Unfortunately that…
Root Cause Customer Service
4 November 2007
Our friend Don Boundreaux, chair of the department of economics at George Mason University and blogger at Cafe Hayek, had an article in the Christian…
Fun With Statistics, Prostate Edition
4 November 2007
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll explore why it is important to really read every word, and understand the sequence of data analysis,…
The False God Opens a New Front
1 November 2007
Over the past couple years we've been doing battle with the False God of the Almighty Algorithm. This initially stemmed from a conversation with…
Domestic Fangs
31 October 2007
The business "section" of my local small-town newspaper has a regular feature that updates the status of previously featured local companies…
Company Tales
28 October 2007
A lot of companies are working on lean these days, and perhaps some of them are your competitors. Each day Google is nice enough to send me a lis…
Harvard's Flying Pigs
28 October 2007
Pigs may soon be flying. We've thrashed the large b-schools quite a bit for ivory tower wisdom that usually promotes the glories of oursourcing, o…
Ruger Drains the Swamp
27 October 2007
Those of us that have gone through a lean transformation or two know that it is hard, very hard. Probably the most difficult aspect is learning what y…