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…
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…
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…
9 October 2009
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…
8 October 2009
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…
7 October 2009
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…
6 October 2009
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…
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…
3 October 2009
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…