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…
Cross-training, Bloomberg Style
7 January 2010
For a couple years I've been giving you snippets of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's leadership style. Sure he has a lot of detractors, but there…
Mandates vs. Kaizen
5 January 2010
A couple weeks ago I contrasted the process of kaizen (small incremental change) versus kaikaku (large step change), particularly in regards to our cu…
Flexibility: A License to Accept Waste
3 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer A couple weeks ago I re-read Michael Balle's excellent business novel, The Lean Manager. One concept that has been nagging at me…