Wednesday's Financial Times had a fascinating article describing the rather incongruent business climate in China. China this week celebrates the…

Just in time for the holidays, here's Widmer's Cheese!…

Examples of Excellence is a weekly feature showcasing examples of operational excellence.  If you have an example you'd like to share, please emai…

Conventional lean wisdom dictates that in order to obtain employee commitment for lean improvements, improvements that by their nature create efficien…

How prepared are you for a sudden, dramatic decline in demand?  Is it even on your radar?  Most of us think of demand in terms of waves that slowly ri…

Another day, another article trying to figure out how to simplify global supply chains... without realizing that the easiest way to simplify them is t…

We've taken McKinsey to task several times over the past year, especially with regards to their "thinking" on supply chains.  But last m…

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…