Along comes a story about workers at a Nortel plant in Ireland going on strike every Monday. The Nortel telecoms plant at Monkstown in Newtownabbey w…

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…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the monthly e-newslette…

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…