We've all been there, or had nightmares of it: sending out the unintended email or a document with unintended content.  However even in our nightm…

In this edition of 5 Questions we meet Sean Skinner, a lean practitioner. -------- 1.  Who are you? What organization are you with? What are your cu…

Regular readers know that American Apparel is one of my favorite companies.  5,000 people in high cost Los Angeles in high cost California, paid above…

by BILL WADDELL Before I went into consulting I was the VP in charge of the supply chain at a big consumer products company, and I used to have a pre…

by BILL WADDELL There is an interesting interview with a Harvard guy named Umair Haque in Business Week, in which he carries on about the "sweat…

In this edition of 5 Questions we meet Dr. Sami Bahri, sometimes called "The Lean Dentist," and author of the recently-published Follow the…

by BILL WADDELL A few days ago a post I wrote included what was really a throw away line, "Buying America's assets and scrapping them in ord…

I've been somewhat amused over the last few days as Democrats try to squelch the mailing of a rather interesting chart purporting to diagram the D…