Does Your Organization Need a Truth-o-Meter?
5 February 2009
The other day on CNN I came across the "Truth-o-Meter" which is actually part of the St. Petersburg Times. There are sub-sections for a &qu…
“Annual Expenditure Twenty Pound Ought and Six”
4 February 2009
I read articles and listen to commentary about the bailout of the US financial industry and wonder, “Does giving people money solve their problems?” I…
5:30pm. Please Go Home and...
3 February 2009
Japan has some major workforce issues. One is the tendency to work very long days, even to the point of karoshi... death by overwork. The other is t…
Motorola Follows the Dell Model to Doom
2 February 2009
Nearly a year ago we told you about an interesting new hire and strategy at Motorola. So what do you do if you're a technology company whose prod…
Waste in Speed?
1 February 2009
A core aspect of lean is execution, fast execution. Ohno and Shingo often pushed their folks to just try new ideas and refine later instead of endles…
Bill Waddell
1 February 2009
Bill Waddell is an independent lean manufacturing consultant and the author of Rebirth of American Industry. A leading lean practitioner for over 20 y…
Dan Markovitz
1 February 2009
Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. As a trainer, he has worked with UBS, Merrill Lynch, American Express, AXA Equitab…
Kevin Meyer
1 February 2009
Kevin Meyer started the Superfactory website in 1997 as a simple list of manufacturing excellence resource links. The information portal grew tremendo…