Dressing Lean
18 January 2007
I've long been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, and moving back to California several years ago only reinforced that lifestyle. I think the last t…
Toyota Shops At Wal-Mart
16 January 2007
We'll probably see an increasing number of news stories this year on Toyota as they overtake GM as the number one automaker. Last night the NBC Ni…
A Myriad of Misleading Metrics
15 January 2007
Last Sunday's issue of Parade, that rather cheesy newspaper insert that predominantly deals with important news from the world of Britney Spears a…
Sustaining Lean: Multiplying Your Successes
15 January 2007
By Don Kivell This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Investing in Lean
15 January 2007
A couple days ago we provided a quick tally of companies we've talked about in the blog, separating them into "good" and "not so go…
More Problems for NAM
14 January 2007
Over the past year we've been telling you about the duel going on at the National Association of Manufacturers. The NAM executive committee sided…
Jack Welch: Under the Influence
13 January 2007
Ok, who abducted the Jack Welch we've come to know and... err... whatever. The turkey who has said that "a paycheck means you have a job for…
NCR Follows Whirlpool Off the Cliff
12 January 2007
There must be something in the water in the midwest U.S.; something that keeps certain automaker execs in Detroit from embracing a very obvious road t…