The McKinsey guys just published the results of a survey on supply chain management that has some interesting, albeit expected (at least by us!), conc…

A news story the other day caught my eye and got me to thinking. One of the aims of the Olympics is to raise interest in taking part in sports - but…

Is lean manufacturing risky? Perhaps, especially when it's implemented in a superficial manner. But Cisco apparently believes it is also one of in…

By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

If you're a regular reader you know by now how ridiculous outsourcing can be. Traditional accounting methods that value brains as a simple set of…

I was thumbing through the latest online issue of Industry Week and came across an article that raised my hackles: What Happened to the "Auto&quo…

By now regular readers know that costs are skyrocketing in China, and even the traditional accounting gurus are saying that outsourcing to that countr…

Over the past year or two we've been reading more and more about the growing competition for talent inside China, which is creating rapid wage inf…