I subscribe to three of the Kiplinger Letter publications - the original Kiplinger Letter, the Kiplinger Tax Letter, and the Kiplinger California Lett…

When I write anything about Bush, Obama, Congress or the EPA a great wailing begins from some readers that they are not interested in politics - urgin…

Just the other day I told you how Boeing has apparently learned a lesson and is making an about-face on its outsourcing strategy by buying the assembl…

I have often made feeble attempts to describe why publicly traded companies find it virtually impossible to embrace lean manufacturing, and its pr…

You may have noticed that the pace of my writing slowed over the last few weeks as the demand for my one day assessments took me to North Carolina, Te…

Boeing is in the news again, unfortunately announcing more delays with the 787 Dreamliner. We've talked for years about how the company's outs…

Thanks to Pete over at Shmula for shooting me this tidbit. If you take a look at all cars sold in the U.S. and ranked them by domestic content... part…

In this edition of 5 Questions we meet John Kim. I've known John for nearly a decade in a variety of roles and consider him one of the most…