We often write about how productivity gains in manufacturing have been spectacular during the past few decades, and how unfortunately productivity has…

Earlier this week Dan Markovitz penned a post comparing kaizen with kaikaku... steady continual improvement versus sudden, radical improvement. The po…

We often say that organizations don't understand the true value of their employees and treat them as a simple pair of hands... instead of a source…

Regular reader know that I like Tim Ferris' book, The Four Hour Workweek. The productivity aspects of lean dovetail perfectly with the concepts h…

Guest author today is Cash Powell, Jr. of the University of Dayton's Center for Competitive Change. ----- When Orrie Fiume, then Executive Vice P…

By John M. Rubio and George Koenigsaecker This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that e…

Over the past week or two I've written a couple of postson the bailout (ok, "loan") that the Detroit Three automakers are asking from Co…

I enjoy traveling, although the past week in Switzerland and France has been rather grueling.  One of the aspects I like most is seeing how cultures a…