I have written before of Professor Tom Johnson up at Portland State - the author of Relevance Lost, the book that opened everyone's eyes to the pr…

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 brands in the farm and…

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,…

Dr. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University's management school penned an article in the latest Business Week decrying a lack of management... not le…

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 opportunity to dive…

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 nightma…

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 cur…

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 pretty standard spee…