A lot of companies are working on lean these days, and perhaps some of them are your competitors.  Each day Google is nice enough to send me a list of…

Pigs may soon be flying.  We've thrashed the large b-schools quite a bit for ivory tower wisdom that usually promotes the glories of oursourcing,…

Those of us that have gone through a lean transformation or two know that it is hard, very hard.  Probably the most difficult aspect is learning what…

Two years ago we wrote a post contrasting the leadership, planning, and execution associated with 9/11 and Katrina.  On 9/11, 9/11 was an event unlik…

The annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence is in Chicago next week.  This is the largest lean conference in the world, and…

In this edition of Fun With Statistics we take a look at the effect of a point of reference on data.  How old are you?  Do you feel old?  How is that…

The Wall Street Journal often has some thought-provoking articles.  Occasionally some are truly lean-oriented, but most of the time they may slightly…

Many companies use "sales per employee" or "customers per employee" as measures of productivity and efficiency.  I've often wo…