A fact that the lean community has known for a long time is beginning to dawn on the rest of the world ... that there are two kinds of companies in th…

I began re-reading today the classic book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno. As I was perusing Ohno’s Preface I…

I ranted a bit yesterday on the state of the economy, pointing out that the credit disaster had been building for the "last few decades". Fo…

Häagen-Dazs, owned by ice cream giant Dreyer's, just announced that they're "downsizing" their pints of ice cream. In a truly Orwell…

It is interesting to read all of the so-called experts predict when and how the economy will recover. The Obama folks are, on the one hand, saying &qu…

What a wild ride it's been at Lego. First in mid-2006 Bill told us about their initial decisions to outsource manufacturing. The only trick the…

In this weeks edition of 5 Questions we meet Karen Wilhelm of the Lean Reflections blog. -------- 1. Who are you, what organization are you with, an…

That nugget of wisdom is but one of many you can mine from Warren Buffett's letter to his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders released a few days ago.…