Mother Nature vs. Supply Chain
10 May 2006
We've all experienced the occassional wrath of Mother Nature on our operations... leaky roofs, electrical outages, and the like. But what happens…
Your Competitors May Not Be So Blind
9 May 2006
Have you thought recently about how the internet has changed the world? I'm dating myself, but I do remember playing Pong in high school, feeding…
Sometimes It Takes A Wizard
2 May 2006
In general I agree with Bill’s perception of books and articles that try to analyze and stratify leadership by any number of criteria. As he puts it,…
Shigeo Shingo's Influence on TPS
15 April 2006
By Art Smalley This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
The False God of the Almighty Algorithm
15 April 2006
There are two large lean-oriented Yahoo Group message boards, Bill Kluck's NWLean and Shahrukh Irani's JSLean. NWLean was originally started i…
The Future of Management... From India
14 April 2006
Over the past decade we've witnessed the rapid maturing of Asian and Indian industrial companies from simple low labor cost assembly operations to…
Regulatory Muda
3 April 2006
As someone of Catonian persuasion, I have a general abhorrence to most regulations. I firmly believe that regulatory interference on a free market wil…
Submerging California
31 March 2006
Sometimes you just have to wonder about the thought processes in large companies. Actually I don't, as I used to work for a Fortune-50 medical dev…