Can Lean Exit the Tool Age?
15 July 2007
By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Free Market Religion
14 July 2007
The free market is a wonderful thing. Left alone without excessive regulatory prodding and social engineering it finds the most efficient way to deliv…
Fun With Statistics, Laffer Edition
14 July 2007
Several blogs are discussing the article in Friday's Wall Street Journal on how basically the entire world, with the notable exception of the Unit…
Smart? Then Act That Way.
12 July 2007
A few months ago Dan wrote a post lauding Whole Foods and its CEO, John Mackey, specifically with regards to executive pay. While many other companies…
The Opportunity of Individual Simplicity
11 July 2007
The latest McKinsey Quarterly has an article titled Cracking the Complexity Code that discusses the differences between institutional and individual c…
Fun With Statistics, Sicko Edition
11 July 2007
Over the past couple weeks our friend Mark at the Lean Blog has been tackling a subject I've astutely avoided... Michael Moore's latest rant,…
Value is not Price
10 July 2007
The automotive parts industry has not exactly had an easy time over the last decade or so. Many of those companies chased the alluring volume from wha…
Geo-Centric Customer Service
9 July 2007
Today's Wall Street Journal describes how Lexus is trying to improve its market share in Japan. Somewhat unusually, Toyota launched the Lexus bran…