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Accenture and Hindsight Consulting

4 May 2011

By Kevin Meyer Well another of the big five (or is it four or three by now?) consultancies has figured out that offshore outsourcing doesn't work…

Outsourcing Lemmings

The Waste of Unnecessary Communication

3 May 2011

By Kevin Meyer Regular readers know I'm a big fan of visual communication - visual factory and visual leadership concepts.  Coincidentally just l…

Leadership & Execution

Fun With Statistics - Predictably Private Edition

23 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle the brouhaha over the past couple days regarding the discovery that the iPhone…

Fun With Statistics

And We Wonder Why We're Losing Manufacturing Jobs

22 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer I haven't exactly been Boeing's best friend over the past several years, regularly taking them to task for their nutty 787 Dre…

Organizations & Policy

Laying Off Hands, Losing Brains

19 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer Another day, another article that makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Thirty people at the Stark Manufacturing plant in P…

Basic Excellence

The Absurd Cost of Complexity

19 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer Lean folks are naturally tuned to recognize unnecessary complexity, and most of us know the largest cost in a manufacturing operation…

Organizations & Policy

The Obliquity of Lean

17 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer A few days ago The Wall Street Journal had a book review on John Kay's Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly .  I…

Leadership & Execution

It's Not a Zero Sum Game

16 April 2011

By Kevin Meyer Here we are again, tax day.  I'm always amazed by the people excited to receive a refund not realizing they've really just giv…

A Little Different

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