By Terence Burton This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012…

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…