Putting Lean Into Orbit
15 March 2010
By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Teaching by Asking Why
14 March 2010
The business school at our local university, consistently ranked one of the top public universities in the west, is going through a minor brouhaha ove…
Cat Comes Back
12 March 2010
It's been a pretty good year - more and more companies are realizing the folly of offshoring and are coming back to America. Sure it's a battl…
Better Call the Waaaahmulance!
9 March 2010
Over the past several weeks we've penned many posts about manufacturers that have woken up to the hidden costs of offshore manufacturing or outsou…
The Allure and Danger of Best Practices
8 March 2010
Today's Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on how some companies are using meeting rooms at other companies for offsite meetings, inst…
Still Blind - The GM Taxpayer Fleecing Continues
6 March 2010
Nearly a year ago Bill told you how GM's plan to reduce its dealer network was just a fraction of what needed to be done. At the time GM had 6,300…
Returning to America - More Stories
2 March 2010
Mike Collins has penned an article in Product Design and Development that does a good job of showing how more and more companies are waking up to the…
Don't Poke the Balloon
1 March 2010
Grim Reader is always one of my favorite reads as Eric never fails to challenge my intellectual capacity. Of course some of you will claim that’s no m…