If Not ROI, Then What?
17 February 2010
After years of trashing Return On Investment - the DuPont ROI model, in particular - as a measure of manufacturing success, or as the decision making…
Obvious and Underutilized
16 February 2010
Imagine my surprise when an article at the Harvard Business Review of all rags discussed poka yoke. Imagine my further surprise when I found it to be…
How Did Cows and Dirt Get So Sexy?
16 February 2010
So I'm reading this story over on CNN about a new corporate structure called an L3C that basically allows charities and foundations to plow their…
25 Problems
15 February 2010
By Jamie Flinchbaugh This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2…
Applying Product Design Methods to Government Policy Design
13 February 2010
The opinion and letters section of the Wall Street Journal is always one of my favorite reads as it makes you realize, again, just how smart the commo…
Andons and Problems at NUMMI
11 February 2010
Interesting article by John Shook in the latest MIT Sloan Review on the culture at NUMMI. The GM-Toyota joint venture let Toyota experiment with apply…
Apria - Your Nose is Growing
10 February 2010
The Apria Healthcare company ... Laid off 105 people California in June, along with 30 more in Illinois and Maryland due to "Medicare cuts"…
Learn from the Right Mistakes
9 February 2010
Akio Toyoda wrote an OpEd piece in the Washington Post offering up his mea culpas and outlining his plan for resolving Toyota's quality challenges…