Both Ford and Boeing strike me as companies that have an intellectual understanding of lean, but have yet to really internalize the principles and mak…

Of all the tools in the Lean Accounting tool kit I am convinced that the most critical one is strategic pricing. In the face of such a down economy ju…

A few weeks back I wrote a post that included a remark about the powder keg I see in China that is not far from exploding. Mark Welch commented with t…

The truth always comes out in the end. That is a universal fact, even though sometimes it takes a while for the end to come around and the truth to be…

GM could have been a very different company today. Unfortunately it missed, if not completely screwed up, the best opportunity almost any company coul…

The political left went off the deep end a couple months ago when John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods and ostensibly "one of them," penned an op…

A couple days ago Bill told you about Toyota's Inexcusable Failure after the company had to recall over three million vehicles. So much for qua…

It is impossible to get writer's block when tasked with writing about American manufacturing. I can always count on the news for entertainment on…