Returning to America - The Debate
20 October 2009
Mark over at the Lean Blog tipped me off to an interesting article at Deloitte that debated the pros and cons of manufacturers repatriating jobs back…
Chief Brain Officer
17 October 2009
Regular readers know that one of my pet peeves is with how most organizations, especially manufacturers, think of their people. Yep, just a pair of ha…
Wasting a Neuron on Oprah
16 October 2009
Us lean types are obsessed with value which thereby makes us obsessed with waste. Finding and eliminating waste of any form can become obsessive... pe…
The Need for Speed: Building Early Momentum on the Path to Continuous Improvement
15 October 2009
By Tom Shaw This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012. O…
Find the Real Opportunity
14 October 2009
Mark Graban, our friend over at the Lean Blog and expert on the lean health care side of things, tweeted an interesting link showing the detailed brea…
Boeing Pulls Another Rube Goldberg
12 October 2009
Over the past three years we've been chronicling Boeing's dive into their outsourcing adventure on the Dreamliner project, and the struggles a…
Fun With Statistics - Men's Underwear Edition
10 October 2009
In this edition of Fun With Statistics we take a quick look at one of those odd economic indexes we come across every now and then. An unconventional…
RIP Saturn - You Could Have Saved GM
4 October 2009
GM could have been a very different company today. Unfortunately it missed, if not completely screwed up, the best opportunity almost any company coul…