Earlier this week our friend Mark Graban over at the Lean Blog penned what I consider to be a very important post on "measuring leanness."…

Although it's relatively unrelated to any important message, we've enjoyed watching the battle between SAP and Oracle, aka the false gods of t…

The Wall Street Journal this morning has a front page article detailing the long and convoluted supply chain that brings ginger from small farms in Ch…

Walk into just about any workplace these days and you'll find the same motivational posters, with ubiquitous themes like "synergy," wha…

Once again we've come across a great example of a company that knows how to be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories, even in a relativel…

Several of us stayed at the Chicago Hilton last week while at the AME Annual Conference and I believe we were all impressed with the level of service.…

Up until recently the prevailing wisdom has been that GM's turnaround started earlier and was progressing faster than Ford's.  I've questi…

I've been lucky enough to know Norman Bodek for several years.  He was the original translator of many of the works of of Shigeo Shingo and Taiich…