The General Relativity of Language
4 August 2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an intriguing article a week or so ago by Peter Coy on the impending debt crisis - now temporarily shoved under the carpet…
Yep, Forgetting the Brains Again
1 August 2011
Another day, another company forgetting that there's a value-adding brain attached to the pair of hands that supposedly costs so much. The differe…
Private Jets and the Simplicity of Production Scheduling
31 July 2011
Private aircraft have taken a beating recently, partly fair partly not. They can be written off as a "cost of doing business" just like innu…
Dig Deeper Part 2: Baggage and Boarding Nonsense
22 July 2011
A couple weeks ago I told you about how Singapore is finding a solution to transit system capacity problems that doesn't require vast investments…
Lean à la Chromalloy and Steelcase
20 July 2011
Last week brought us two stories of two companies mentioning their respective lean manufacturing efforts. I thought I'd show you a couple quotes a…
Improving Educaton Through Lean Mass Customization
18 July 2011
Today's one of those days when a question poised by one Wall Street Journal article is answered by another. First we have the news that the Obama…
As Goes California...
12 July 2011
CNN had another story this morning on the problems with California - specifically with companies fleeing the state. Buffeted by high taxes, strict…
A Discussion with Masaaki Imai
9 July 2011
Ron Pereira at Gemba Academy recently had the opportunity to sit down with Masaaki Imai, the fascinating founder of the Kaizen Institute and author of…