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…

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…