Kevin Meyer

Conventional thinking has it that when two similar organizations merge the sum is more efficient than the parts. That's the thought behind mergers…

This past week has seen a trio of articles explicitly lay out the crisis, misperception, and opportunity of manufacturing in America. Two great articl…

Forget for a moment all the financial convolutions the GM bailout foisted upon the taxpayers, and the accounting machinations they're going throug…

I know that title alone is going to get a bunch of folks tied up in their undies but a story on CNN over the weekend made me think a bit. And perhaps…

Cheap, low margin, low tech. Made in America, exported to China. It can be done, even with a product that has comparatively zero demand in America.…

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 th…

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 thought…

Those of us in the lean world often struggle with enabling a nascent lean transformation to take root in an organization. Now we may have one more con…