The Politics of Manufacturing
18 February 2007
Who is the true customer of a manufacturing company? The end user? Or is it the employees? The shareholders? Or the country the company has operations…
News From Across the Pond
17 February 2007
We recently heard some news from our friends across the pond. Some good, some bad, and it's the usual story. Do you try to cut costs by whacking h…
Time for a Break
16 February 2007
As you read this I'm probably sitting on a beach a couple thousand miles southeast of my California home. The most work my fingers will do over t…
Flights of Knowledge
15 February 2007
How much is knowledge worth? Specifically, in hard currency. That's a tough question, and when it is next to impossible to assign a value the valu…
The Culture Thing
15 February 2007
By Robert "Doc" Hall This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from…
Too Much Selfish Thinking
15 February 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.…
Visualizing the Blogosphere
15 February 2007
A picture is worth a thousand words, and bloggers effortlessly create a thousand words with sometimes reckless abandon. Bloglines, which indexes hundr…
Discovering the Lean Supply Chain: Transforming Suppliers into Powerful Lean Differentiators
15 February 2007
By Robert Hawkey This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…