Steel Blinders
28 July 2007
A couple months ago we told you about how a couple of industry trade groups, the Alliance for American Manufacturing and the Domestic Manufacturing Gr…
The Scourge of Quality Fade
25 July 2007
As if being an outsourcing lemming wasn't hard enough! All that time and money spent finding and developing a manufacturing "partner" i…
Ask Why, Not Who
25 July 2007
Over the past couple days our blog buddy Mark over at the Lean Blog has been discussing the recent survey by the Lean Enterprise Institute that asked…
Simplicity and the Customer
25 July 2007
Simplicity has always been a favorite topic of mine, and in fact it was the subject of one of the original posts on this blog almost three years ago.…
Companies, Putters, and Entrepreneurs
24 July 2007
Just tidying up a bit with a few short notes. First, a week or so ago we pointed you to the ranking of lean companies that Mark over at the Lean Blog…
Kyosei Business Values
22 July 2007
While reviewing an upcoming book from a noted author of lean manufacturing texts, I came across the Caux Round Table, an organization I had not heard…
Information Economics
21 July 2007
Where are the new homes of top shelf economists? Universities? Nope. The government? Nope. Think tanks or Wall Street? Nope. Try companies, esp…
Fun With Statistics, Profit Edition
19 July 2007
It's earnings reporting season again, and out come all of the nincompoops complaining about how the evil oil companies are raping the poor consume…