It has taken us a bit longer than expected, but over the weekend we added several new lean manufacturing, lean office, and general lean enterprise tra…

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, althoug…

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

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

February was an interesting month for the Superfactory 20 group of lean manufacturing company stocks. Roche completed its acquisition of January's…

Today is a momentus day, a day that has created fundamental change in how I work, a day that finally arrived after years of growing frustration and ag…

Before I begin, readers (and especially family and friends) should not derive any subtle conclusions from the topic!  Believe me, there is nothing to…