Several short news blurbs on various companies implementing lean manufacturing have been filling up my tickler file, so let's do a quick roundup.…

I guess you could say the lemmings are coming home to roost, or some such disjointed metaphor.  A few weeks ago we told you how high fuel costs are dr…

Today's NYTimes unknowingly threw into stark relief the consequences of the different paths taken by Boeing and Brazil's Embraer. Boeing, of c…

We often discuss how people are worth more than the cost of their hands.  Their brains contain knowledge, creativity, and ideas which, leveraged well,…

I'm generally not a big fan of Harvard Business Review articles, believing many of them to be a bit too detached from reality.  However last week…

I lost respect for the "reporting" in The Washington Post long, long ago, but I still peruse it briefly online each morning just to see what…

Yesterday we asked the questions from the global IQ quiz that appeared in Richard McCormack's newsletter,  Manufacturing & Technology News.  B…

Our post a couple weeks ago on the Tata Group generated several comments suggesting globalization is pervasive... and still a little unknown.  Coincid…