Outsourcing Cornucopia
5 June 2007
I've had several tidbits on outsourcing building up recently, so here's a quick post to clear them all out. Maybe it will also satisfy my ong…
Dangerous Multitasking
4 June 2007
Finally back home and ready to start regular blogging again. But yesterday I realized that blogging, or even thinking about blogging, can be physical…
Go Team!
3 June 2007
A few months ago I told you about how my wife was training to run a marathon. She is running with the Team in Training group, which is a fundraising…
Looking for MRP Success
2 June 2007
We enjoy telling your about the problems with MRP systems, particularly some of the big software providers. Our friend Mark Edmondson of Lean Affilia…
Dell? Lean? Yeah, right.
1 June 2007
We've taken other companies to task for claiming they're lean while laying off people. Not just laying off people in the face of severe busin…
Wisconsin's Continuing Lean Push
1 June 2007
We've told you several times before about how Wisconsin is pushing lean manufacturing. Mary Burke, the Secretary of the Commerce Department, is t…
Mulally Culture at Ford
31 May 2007
A hat tip to our friend Karen at Lean Reflections for pointing us to this article on how Ford CEO Alan Mulally is trying to change the company's e…
Education Destroying Creativity
30 May 2007
Over the last few days I've been perousing some of the presentations from last year's TED conference. TED, or Technology, Education, and Desi…