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…

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…