Boeing's Bratwurst Gone Bad
12 April 2007
We've told you before about the Rube Goldberg contraptions Boeing is building to handle their supply chain convolutions. Monster planes created j…
The Value of a Potty Break
12 April 2007
Lean-oriented folks like us are ingrained with a mentality to look at all activities in terms of whether they add value to the customer. As a result…
Learning Lean: Industry Needs
10 April 2007
A few weeks ago several of us participated in a study by Gene Fliedner and Kieran Mathieson of Oakland University. The researchers were attempting to…
Secure Supply Chain Value
8 April 2007
Last month's Knowledge@Wharton had an article titled When Local Risks Become Global Risks, which discusses how globalization has augmented the imp…
Lean Government in Fort Wayne
8 April 2007
Over the past couple weeks our friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog has been telling us the story of "lean six sigma government"…
Delusions of Leadership
4 April 2007
Regular readers know that we don't exactly have a high opinion of most books on the latest leadership fads. Bill once commented that it requires…
Historical Simplicity
3 April 2007
History can be a great calibrator. Sometimes we can't see the complexity around us simply because it is all too familiar, too comfortable, and ju…
A Missed Opportunity?
3 April 2007
In 2005 Boeing decided to sell the Wichita/Tulsa Division of its Commercial Airplanes group to Toronto-based Onex for about $900 million in cash, nami…