Pay for Availability
28 February 2007
The current Knowledge @ Wharton has an article on an emerging trend to pay for equipment only when it is performing to expectations. This type of cont…
High Wage Competition
27 February 2007
One of my favorite blogs, Cafe Hayek, had an intriguing post earlier this week titled Competing With High-Wage Workers. Don Boudreaux's premise is…
Free TWI Webinar
27 February 2007
If you've been involved with lean manufacturing for a while you have probably started to see some discussion on "training within industry&quo…
Lessons From a Deserted Isle
27 February 2007
One of the highlights of our trip to Belize last week was going out to the barrier reef, the second largest in the world. Getting there required an ho…
Stop Whining and Start Competing
26 February 2007
Today's issue of Manufacturing News has a couple of articles on U.S. furniture manufacturers "succumbing to cheap imports." Two specific…
Going to the Gemba in Belize
25 February 2007
I'm back. Eight days at the Roberts Grove Inn in Placencia, Belize. Snorkeling on the world's second largest barrier reef, wandering around so…
Ignoring the Obvious Solution
22 February 2007
While poking around for an online source for the Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs post last week, I came across another article by Herbert Meyer…
Lean Data Centers?
21 February 2007
The January issue of The McKinsey Quarterly has an article titled What's on CIO Agendas in 2007. Guess what the top two trends are from an in…