A hat tip to fellow blogger Pete Abilla at shmula for pointing me to a post by Carl Icahn on waste in organizations. Heck, Pete analyzed it very well,…

By Cash Powell, Jr. This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 20…

I tried to not hit a subject too often, but some of our favorites keep popping up in notable ways. In this case, our buddy Dov Charney of American App…

When times are tough, what do most manufacturers do? Why, they lay off or send people home of course! If you're part of the Detroit Three like GM,…

Just as the Detroit Three automakers get set to slurp from the taxpayer bailout trough comes news of several Indian auto manufacturers getting ready t…

A hat tip to Ron at Lean Six Sigma Academy for the following video of Gary Vaynerchuk delivering a keynote address at the Web 2.0 conference in New Yo…

We've all seen it before in our factories, and in business in general... sometimes we just have to set our employees free in order to realize the…

In this issue of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle that new consumer term du jour, the "carbon footprint." Most of us know by now that th…