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…

Lean people have a favorite saying of "drain the swamp," typically meaning reducing inventory to expose problems.  When raw, in-process, and…

An article in last Sunday's NYTimes addressed the value of corporations staying small. In contrast to the early days of the internet when "ge…

The latest issue of Manufacturing News has an interesting, albeit disturbing, article on how fewer startup companies are being created. Entrepreneuri…

For those of you that thought I had lurched a little over the line to the right this week, here's a post in the other direction.  Perhaps this wil…

A regular reader recently pointed me to a post on Carrie's Nation which then pointed to a post on the Mutualist Blog which had a long review of Bi…

An article in the WSJ the other day, on a subject completely unrelated to manufacturing, got me wondering.  And you know what happens when I start to…