Engineering Stigmas
20 September 2006
Today's Wall Street Journal reported the results from the latest WSJ/Harris survey of recruiter opinions of MBA programs. The University of Michig…
Lowballing Geopolitical Risk
19 September 2006
"Geopolitical risk: low". That's what CIO Magazine told us in its Buyer's Guide to Offshore Outsourcing in Thailand. Amazing how fas…
Three Perspectives on Lean
15 September 2006
By Malcolm Jones This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
What is Kaizen?
15 September 2006
By Bruce Hamilton This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012…
The Crumbling Shield of Automation
15 September 2006
Many companies pursue a cost reduction strategy based on chasing lower labor costs all over the globe. As we've pointed out several times, this on…
Accounting Excitement
9 September 2006
It's rare that you think of "accounting" and "excitement" together. But that's exactly what will occur in less than two we…
A Bold New Day at Ford?
6 September 2006
I've spent the last couple days trying to digest the pros and cons of Ford naming Boeing's Alan Mulally to replace Bill Ford as CEO and have c…
Tales of Passion and Conviction
2 September 2006
Today while doing some mindless Googling I learned about the passing of one of my college roommates. Having lost contact with him twenty years ago, it…