I was at the Lean Enterprise Institute's Transformation Summit in Orlando last week and had my world rocked by Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Ba…

Politicians are working themselves into a frenzy attacking the recent Air Force decision to award a lucrative refueling tanker contract to Northrup Gr…

Our friend and occasional guest blogger Dan Markovitz has often written about the problems associated with email overload. But he has just come to a b…

Somehow the entire month of February slipped by without us having something to say about Boeing. Regular readers know that for the last two or three y…

A couple years ago I spent a few weeks exploring Italy with my wife and another couple... and my mother in-law. I quickly found that my favorite part…

Rod Hunter has a good column this morning titled The Democrats and Trade. I purposely won't delve into the political side of the article, although…

The short time horizons of most public company investors have long dogged lean manufacturing turnaround efforts. Real lean takes time, measured in yea…

Regular readers know that onshoring has been a favorite topic of ours. Swimming upstream against the flow of lemmings chasing low labor costs around t…