Few people disagree that the U.S. tax code needs to change.  Currently there are tens of thousands of pages of laws and procedures and regulations, gr…

This week we go into the Graphite Design factory that manufactures golf clubs.…

Fellow lean blogger Mark Graban of the Lean Blog is running the following charity auction! ------ Autographed Norman Bodek Collection Book & CDs…

"Bureaucracy" and "opportunity"... normally those aren't symbiotic terms unless you're a glutton for punishment, but in to…

Earlier this year we were all up in arms about lead contamination in toys and other children's products coming from China.  Time for more regulati…

Slowly but surely companies are beginning to realize that there is more to competitiveness than just cheap labor. Chinese wages and salaries are a f…

The Detroit Three car companies, and all companies for that matter, are taking sometimes draconian steps to cut costs.  Some examples: Over the past…

Believe it or not, South America has long been a test bed for new auto production ideas. Many automakers use South America to try out new manufacturi…