A Fire Truck When an Ambulance Would Suffice
8 August 2012
By Kevin Meyer An article in today's Wall Street Journal made me think a bit about organizational scope creep. It takes twice as many firefighte…
8 August 2012
By Kevin Meyer An article in today's Wall Street Journal made me think a bit about organizational scope creep. It takes twice as many firefighte…
30 July 2012
By Kevin Meyer So the year is 2002. A team of designers and engineers shows their executives "a phone with a color touch screen set above a sin…
19 July 2012
By Kevin Meyer Before I begin, let me be clear. I love Apple products, and I own a plethora of them. The design is incredible, they work like I wan…
12 July 2012
By Kevin Meyer A good friend of mine recently sent me a photo of what his team found while cleaning one of their production areas: Yes, that'…
4 July 2012
By Kevin Meyer Something that annoys me to no end is when I read articles lauding Apple's supposedly amazingly fantastical supply chain. Really?…
17 June 2012
By Kevin Meyer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of those guys you like, even if you sometimes you may not agree with him completely. A few months…
8 June 2012
By Kevin Meyer I just learned that Dave Hogg, one of my oldest friends and mentors in the lean world, has received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Me…
5 June 2012
By Kevin Meyer In his piece yesterday on A New Ball Game, Bill actually beat me to the punch a bit on the sordid story of American Apparel. I've…