Chrysler Learns a Lesson
14 February 2007
Yesterday's front page Wall Street Journal article on the big cuts at DaimlerChrysler was filled with the usual doom and gloom from what we…
Honey I Shrank My MBA!
13 February 2007
Yesterday there was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled MBA Programs Take Fast Track that described how some executive business schools are s…
A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs
12 February 2007
There's an article flying around the internet titled A Global Intelligence Briefing for CEOs by Herbert Meyer (no relation). The original source p…
Marathon Training, The Lean Way
11 February 2007
My lovely wife has decided to train for the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon later this summer. She runs casually and even did the Santa Barba…
Danaher's Low Profile Lean Excellence
10 February 2007
The February 19th issue of BusinessWeek has a very nice article on Danaher. Regular readers know that we often cite that company as an example of real…
Virtual Quality is Hard to Beat
8 February 2007
There's a new market of 3.4 million people just aching to spend money on goods and services. It's growing over 50% a year, is easily accessibl…
Wharton Gets It Right On Detroit
7 February 2007
We've taken the top business schools to task in the past for their views on outsourcing and leadership, but I'm happy to report that for once…
The Culture Side of Lean Manufacturing
7 February 2007
We've ranted a lot lately about GM and their robots, and how that circumvents a couple key aspects of lean: continuous improvement (which by defin…