A recent article in Logistics Management raised my ire a bit. The title is The Downside of Lean Logistics, but the author completely misses his own po…

The fact that we are borrowing money from future generations and spending it like drunken sailors on shore leave is well documented. Less clearly know…

Several years back one of my sons played on a little league baseball team that happened to be losing 15 or 20 to nothing, which happened quite often w…

Sigh. Bob Nardelli "feels good." Those of you with elephantine memories will remember that I'm no fan of Bob Nardelli. The erstwhile CE…

For several years I have been concerned with the question of why the big publicly traded companies find it so difficult - often impossible - to embrac…

In this edition of 5 Questions we meet Lee Fried. ---------- 1. Who are you, what organization are you with, and what are your current lean-oriented…

In 1864 some Union soldiers with mining experience dug a long tunnel and placed a huge cache of dynamite under the Confederate lines in front of Peter…

Standard work, a core component of lean, creates consistency of process and outcome. Developing standard work based on data and analysis is critical,…