This week's Examples of Excellence brings us a "Small Improvements" board (err... window), where small improvement ideas are posted and…

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 com…

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…

To celebrate the fact that it has been unseasonably WARM out here in California this past week, today's factory tour is Beach Beat Surfboards.…

Last week we announced several new web pages with dynamic news, blogs, and inform ation on a variety of topics.  It looks like over 500 people hav…