Actually 'chisan chishou" doesn't translate to "all logistics is waste". It means 'local production for local consumption&#…

We are pleased to once again host the Management Improvement Carnival! A sampling of interesting posts from various leadership and management blogs ov…

Perhaps I was a bit harsh a few weeks back when I was critical of the Ivy Leaguers running just about every aspect of the global economy into the grou…

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…