By Kevin Meyer Understanding lean manufacturing is often a difficult undertaking due to how counterintuitive it can be.  How can a process yield mor…

By Kevin Meyer Could it really be??  The king of outsourcing changing his stripes? Mr. Immelt (CEO, General Electric) said GE had "outsourced…

By Kevin Meyer Sometimes you really have to wonder... A U.S. Supreme Court ruling focused on national security may end up as the most significant d…

By Kevin Meyer A few months ago I wrote how Twitter and haiku can help us create focus and clarity of mission.  Condensing our values, desires, and…

By Kevin Meyer Regular readers know that I have a particular disdain for overly complex MRP and ERP systems, and recommend spending about 0.1% of th…

by BILL WADDELL The Federal Trade Commission is going after bloggers to compel them to disclose any value they receive from companies for endorsing t…

In this week's edition of 5 Questions we meet Jon Miller of Gemba Research. ---- 1. Who are you, what organization are you with, and what are you…

Traditional organizations, especially in the manufacturing sector, usually go through a grueling exercise called "inventory" or "&#…