By Kevin Meyer It's starting to be a trend... a good one for a change.  Companies rethinking their outsourcing strategy after realizing how tradi…

By Kevin Meyer Yes I know I’ve been a bit absent lately. Sorry about that. Somehow the real job… jobs... passions… keeps getting in the way of pennin…

by BILL WADDELL I have written before of Professor Tom Johnson up at Portland State - the author of Relevance L ost the book that opened everyone&#…

by BILL WADDELL The new owners of Chrysler have had a busy week.  Many folks may not know that they have cobbled together a couple of great old brand…

Thanks to regular reader Mike for recommending these two factory tour videos of A.R.E. Truck Caps.  Here's Part 1: And Part 2:…

Us lean geeks seem to find waste at every turn and in every crevice, but this was a new one for me.  A couple days ago I told you about faux precision…

By Kevin Meyer Dr. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University's management school penned an article in the latest Business Week decrying a lack of mana…

By Kevin Meyer It's been a long while, probably over a year, since I've done a Fun With Statistics post, but the WSJ gave me the perfect oppo…