Uh - But What About the Product?
25 January 2012
That old retail icon, JC Penney, is undergoing a transformation thanks to Apple. Apple? Yep - JCP's new CEO is one of the guys responsible for cre…
Milliken, the Anti-Kodak
15 January 2012
The last couple weeks have brought the story of yet another icon of business, Kodak, collapsing and filing for bankruptcy. Yes, failure a key componen…
Hoshin and the Fading of Occupy Wall Street
8 January 2012
Over the weekend I was chatting with a couple friends on different sides of the world and the subject of Occupy Wall Street came up. I'm not exact…
Where's the Value in Sting?
3 January 2012
When Bill makes a point it usually makes the rest of us a bit hypersensitive to similar situations. And so it was with his two posts on the silliness…
Holiday Hansei and the Power of Why and How
25 December 2011
It's that time of the year again when many mortals look back on the year and basically say "crap I should have been able to do more." Th…
2011 Annual Management Blog Review
19 December 2011
Once again I'm honored to be part of John Hunter's Curious Cat Annual Management Blog Review. Check out the link for a variety of other manage…
Results-Based Policies and Procedures
5 December 2011
Don't worry folks, although the article I reference here is on regulation, my point is aimed at corporate policies and procedures as in this case…
Conflicted Toyota
29 November 2011
Toyota took the fundamentals of lean from the likes of Ford and Deming and others decades ago, crafted it into TPS in the 60s and 70s which enabled th…