SAP's Chasm of Complexity
16 May 2007
I always thought that top executives are usually the most hard core evangelists for a company, sometimes to a fault. But not Hasso Plattner, co-found…
My Message to Michael Bloomberg
16 May 2007
Yesterday our friend Karen Wilhelm of the Lean Reflections blog wrote a post titled My Message to Barack Obama. She has decided that Obama deserves he…
Organizational Development: The Missing Link in Lean Transformations
15 May 2007
By Richard G. Ligus This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 20…
The Leadership Problem
15 May 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.…
Nucor - Look Over Your Shoulder!
14 May 2007
Over the past year we've been telling you how an alliance called the "Domestic Manufacturing Group" has been raising cain at NAM. This g…
Oh Give Me a Break (TM)
14 May 2007
And now for the most ridiculous item of the day... The U.S. Patent Office approved the trademark "Lean Procurement(TM)," a strategic servic…
Lean News Publishing
14 May 2007
No, not news about lean, but lean applied to the news business and specifically newspaper publishing. Today's Wall Street Journal has a couple le…
Littered With the Carcasses of Companies
13 May 2007
Yesterday I told you about the panel discussion on Onshoring: Domestic Manufacturing as a Competitive Advantage that I moderated at Kellogg's…