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7 January 2008
We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…
7 January 2008
We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…
7 January 2008
On December 27th the world was shocked by the news of the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. A powerful woman leader, controversial in th…
5 January 2008
German manufacturer MAN has been dipping its toes into the wonderful world of lean manufacturing. At Munich, Germany-based MAN Nutzfahrzeuge—the 13-p…
5 January 2008
The next annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence will be held in Toronto this October 20-24. Each of the last several confer…
4 January 2008
Those of you that watched the Orange Bowl last night may have seen a rather amusing commercial where a guy walks into a copy store with a stack of bla…
26 December 2007
Two years ago I wrote about how lean manufacturing concepts can be applied to the home, and suggested some New Year's resolutions. From 5S to inve…
26 December 2007
I often rant against the outsourcing lemmings that insist on chasing low labor costs around the world while not looking inward to find efficiency impr…
24 December 2007
Last year I wrote about my experience with driving in Italy. When most Americans visit Europe, and especially Italy, one of their first observations…