The Culmination is... Poof!
21 January 2010
Mergers and acquisitions are a common activity in business, even if they rarely work our as originally envisioned. At least that original vision is oc…
The Cascading Cost of Rehiring
19 January 2010
A couple of recent stories on the same topic but from different angles really helps point out the cost of laying off. First Richard McCormack at Manuf…
The Lesson of Teddy Bears
17 January 2010
Thanks for regular reader Craig for bringing this story to our attention - another example of the hidden costs of outsourcing. The German toymaker St…
A Rube Goldberg Creation of Rare Perversity
16 January 2010
Obviously with that kind of title I can only mean the insanity created, again, when the free market force of nature meets skewed politically-induced r…
A Message From the Future
15 January 2010
By Anonymous This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…
Santa Claus and Outsourcing
12 January 2010
What could have happened if our friend Santa Claus had succumbed to the call of the outsourcing lemmings? Another Christmas, another triumph for the…
Remember the Perspective of Value
10 January 2010
Sometimes we forget that in the lean world value, and waste, is defined from the perspective of the customer. An article in a recent HPM Consortium ne…
Speaking of Value...
9 January 2010
Sometimes you really have to wonder... How quickly dreams can become nightmares. Just a few days after the engineering team behind the Chevrolet Vol…