The explanation from those on high for throwing American manufacturing - as well as manufacturing in western Europe and Australia - under the bus is t…

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…

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…

Last week Dan posted a piece about some guys who reinvented the lean wheel over on the Harvard Business Review, and dubbed it M4L4M - More For Less Fo…

I am heading back to the land of kangaroos and koalas soon to partner for a couple of weeks with KAON Consulting and the State of Queensland. In fact,…

After being able to stay grounded the entire month of January, I made up for it in February by being on a plane practically every other day – just a t…

Our February 2010 escape to Dominica revealed why this lesser-known Caribbean island deserves its nickname as "The Nature Island." Unlike th…

Some day someone will write a book about the thirty year battle between GM and Toyota to be the biggest that, like Otus and Ephialtes of Greek mytholo…