It's Global, Baby
11 July 2008
Let's review some recent statements on the manufacturing economy: Now many exporters and workshops here have shut their doors. Others, their work…
11 July 2008
Let's review some recent statements on the manufacturing economy: Now many exporters and workshops here have shut their doors. Others, their work…
10 July 2008
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…
9 July 2008
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…
8 July 2008
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…
7 July 2008
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…
6 July 2008
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…
5 July 2008
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…
4 July 2008
Several short news blurbs on various companies implementing lean manufacturing have been filling up my tickler file, so let's do a quick roundup.…