My post the other day, "A Plague On Both Your Houses" stirred up a few folks - imagine that - me writing something that riled someone up! Th…

A couple days ago I received my annual report from Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's acquisition monster. As Bill mentioned about a month ago,…

My original idea was to look up the lean manufacturing content that both Michigan State and the University of North Carolina offer their business scho…

This week in our 5 Questions series we'll get to know fellow lean blogger, and now Shingo Prize winning author, Mark Graban. ---------- 1.Who ar…

Leanophiles know that all organizations have value streams... the sequence of operations that creates value, and generally some tag-along waste, for t…

On April 26, 1995, a plane flying over the Cincinnati Reds opening day baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Riverfront Stadium towed a banner tha…

For those who haven't dug into lean deeply enough to understand how accounting is the real problem, and Lean Accounting is an absolute prerequisit…

It may have passed under your radar in the global economic hubub, but Chinese manufacturing is in the tank and sinking deeper. While the economic melt…