Those of us in the lean manufacturing world have known for a long time that one of the most powerful ways to create change and efficiency is by levera…

Let's review some recent statements on the manufacturing economy: Now many exporters and workshops here have shut their doors. Others, their work…

Lean bloggers are not exactly the biggest fans of Jack Welch, but a couple weeks ago he penned a prescient column for Business Week discussing leaders…

It looks like GM is continuing to focus on the top line, sales, in deference to the bottom line, profits.  Actually they don't seem all that focus…

And all this time we thought that decisions arose consciously by thoroughly evaluating the data and coming to a conclusion.  Maybe not. Fishing in th…

We often push the fact that manufacturing is expanding in the U.S. and it really is possible to compete globally from U.S. factories... even in low ma…

A couple months ago we compared Costco to the "lean" corner store, deriding the big box mentality of purchasing in bulk to supposedly save m…

We've talked a lot the last couple weeks about outsourcing and offshoring, whether driven by a lack of understanding of real-world economics, the…