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 Desig…
Wal-Mart Bites China Back
29 May 2007
Last month we had a post titled China Bites Wal-Mart, describing how long supply chains coupled with fickle customers created serious inventory proble…
Pay For Performance and Wage Inequality
29 May 2007
Pay for performance and merit pay have become popular in the manufacturing world to incentivize increased output, and if done correctly, quality and i…
LAME, but Successful... For Now
28 May 2007
Have you heard about John Watson & Company, the printing firm from across the pond that supposedly hasn't laid off any employees in it's 1…
Knowledge, Safety Nets and Outsourcing
28 May 2007
JP Rangaswami over at the Confused of Calcutta blog had an interesting post the other day on the dangers of the "inspection / repair culture.&quo…
Incestuous ERP
27 May 2007
Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, TomorrowNow, Agile... it's hard to keep the relationship between all of these ERP players straight. Especially since they…
John Wayne - The Duke of Lists
26 May 2007
Today would have been John Wayne's 100th birthday, and David Hinckley at the New York Daily News penned a remembrance that embraces one of my favo…
Lean Baby Names
25 May 2007
First off, family, and friends, no we DO NOT have anything to announce. Believe me, we enjoy our lifestyle (and our sleep) and our kids' names are…