Chopsticks and iPhones
13 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Cheap, low margin, low tech. Made in America, exported to China. It can be done, even with a product that has comparatively zero dem…
Congratulations, Boeing
7 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Over the past several years I've taken Boeing to task, sometimes severely, on their 787 Dreamliner program. By now we know that t…
Bill and His Groupies
7 August 2011
Our friend Bob Emiliani runs an ongoing ad on fellow blogger Mark Graban's Lean Blog that pokes a bit of fun at various lean glitterati. I though…
It Takes a Minority
5 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Those of us in the lean world often struggle with enabling a nascent lean transformation to take root in an organization. Now we may…
The General Relativity of Language
4 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an intriguing article a week or so ago by Peter Coy on the impending debt crisis - now temporarily shoved u…
Yep, Forgetting the Brains Again
1 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Another day, another company forgetting that there's a value-adding brain attached to the pair of hands that supposedly costs so m…
Private Jets and the Simplicity of Production Scheduling
31 July 2011
By Kevin Meyer Private aircraft have taken a beating recently, partly fair partly not. They can be written off as a "cost of doing business&quo…
Dig Deeper Part 2: Baggage and Boarding Nonsense
22 July 2011
By Kevin Meyer A couple weeks ago I told you about how Singapore is finding a solution to transit system capacity problems that doesn't require v…