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 o…
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 a…
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 jus…
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…
Blind to the Pull Economy
2 April 2007
Many of you may have caught Alan Blinder's front page article in the Wall Street Journal last week titled Pain From Free Trade Spurs Second Th…