Suicide by Stick
3 October 2007
In an op-ed in The New York Times this morning, Thomas Friedman derides Toyota for not supporting tougher mileage standards for autos. Assisting Detr…
Management Improvement Carnival #20
2 October 2007
Evolving Excellence is hosting this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Elegance Offsets at Elegant Solutions. If carbon offsets are via…
Granite Pinball
2 October 2007
Last Sunday was an interesting day at our house. We live on a steep street near the top of one of the "seven sisters" small extinct volcano…
Fun With Statistics, Divorce Edition
30 September 2007
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll take a quick look at the impact of subpopulations of data. We often look at the direction of large p…
Creating Obtuse Commitment at GM
29 September 2007
Like many other lean-oriented bloggers I've held back from making much of a comment on the recent deal between GM and the UAW. I think Chrysler,…
More Misfocus
25 September 2007
I haven't picked on NAM too much recently, basically nothing since their drama of early this year when their small number of large manufacturer me…
More Globetrotting... From India
24 September 2007
About a year ago we warned companies to beware of chasing cheap labor around the world... "globetrotting" as we called it. Ahh... to be a w…
Smaller and Even Less Flexible
23 September 2007
I don't know what it is about SAP, but they definitely have a better marketing department than Oracle. Every day there's some new announcemen…