Ohio State vs. Florida - No Contest
1 April 2007
UCLA is no longer going to be in the NCAA basketball championship dance, most likely due to the jinx that our fellow lean blogger Mike placed on them.…
Counterintuitive Productivity Statistics
29 March 2007
We've had a fascination with manufacturing productivity statistics for quite some time. Several months ago we began exploring a possible problem w…
Oracle vs. SAP - Battle of the False Gods
28 March 2007
Regular readers know that we have a pretty low opinion of MRP/ERP software and in general prefer the simple excellence of manual visual systems for sh…
The Value in Pricing
28 March 2007
Hopefully you caught the front page article in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday discussing how Parker-Hannifin completely revamped its pricing strat…
The Value in Jobs
27 March 2007
Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek, one of my favorite blogs, had a post yesterday titled Creating Value. It is ostensibly an introduction to a new book…
Boeing's Balancing Act
26 March 2007
Many of you probably saw Monday's front page article in the Wall Street Journal on Boeing. It describes a problem many companies wish they had and…
Furniture Circling the Globe
25 March 2007
Last month we told you about a couple more furniture companies that are following the outsourcing lemmings chasing cheaper labor overseas without look…
The Teaching Leader
24 March 2007
Ego seems to often get in the way of effective leadership. Yesterday we told you about a study that compared the size of S&P 500 CEO's homes a…