Those of us in the lean world know the power of visual controls to convey information, metrics, and methods. But can the design of the visual control…

A short blurb in yesterday's Wall Street Journal tweaked my sensibilities yet again. Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson braced investors for…

We've talked a lot about Boeing over the last few years, from deriding the supply chain convolutions that created the need for Rube Goldberg contr…

Consultants, analysts, academes, and pretty much every assorted pontificating polemic seem to spend countless hours trying to dissect that beast calle…

The last few months have been very tough for many companies, especially those in the consumer retail space. You would think a company that has to comp…

Every time I turn on the news these days I seem to hear about some new request, or outright appointment, of a "czar" of something or another…

For the past several months we've had a regular Saturday feature called "Examples of Excellence" with photos and other inspiring example…

Once again we have someone, this time ostensibly a professor of economics, looking at a concept from an unfortunately narrow perspective. From a lette…