Lean, Lean, and More Lean
24 May 2007
It may just be me, but it appears that the number of companies citing lean manufacturing in their financial reports, news releases, and general news a…
Who Drives Your Bus?
24 May 2007
Those of you that have sat through a keynote by Jim Collins know that he likes to talk not only about getting the right people on the bus... your busi…
Differing Perspectives On Suppliers
23 May 2007
Every now and then one page can say it all. Take page 12 in the May 14th print issue of Rubber News (yes, really, for those of you not in the industry…
787 Dreamliner Built in Ten Minutes!
22 May 2007
Regular readers know I reserve a special place in my heart for Rube Goldberg supply chain convolutions, such as Boeing's Dreamlifter and the Airb…
Wal-Mart Learns About Cost... And Value
21 May 2007
Wal-Mart is in a bit of a pickle. Over the last decade they have focused incessantly on unit cost, ostensibly to provide reduced price and therefore p…
Lean Diets and the Size of Your Unit
19 May 2007
It's Saturday, and many of us are looking forward to eating out. Actually my wife and I basically eat out every night anyway, so it's no big d…
SAP - Look in the Mirror
17 May 2007
I know, I know... I just wrote about SAP and complexity. Just yesterday. But leave it to SAP, purveyor of the most complex software solution for the s…
Faking Six Sigma
17 May 2007
Our friend Mark Graban at the Lean Blog has started to coin the term "LAME" for "lean as misguidedly executed" in an attempt to de…