InfoWorld Nederland has a fascinating and surprisingly deep article on the implementation of a fairly customized ERP system at Maruti Udyog, one of In…

About 18 months ago Bill told you how Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, chief guy at Lego and former McKinsey wizard, had decided to outsource most of Lego's…

A couple of recent news stories, albeit on subjects completely unrelated to manufacturing, have made me ask if we do a good job retaining and reinforc…

A recent McKinsey Quarterly has a book excerpt titled Bringing Best Practice to China, which describes the evolving level of management and operationa…

How many people take statistics at face value without diving deeper? In a larger sense that's the point behind our irregular Fun With Statistics s…

We are now only a month away from the Lean Accounting Summit in Orlando, September 27-28. Rooms at the conference hotel, the Disney Yacht and Beach Cl…

I've been a Dell customer for many, many years. Partly due to their offering the right computer for my needs at the right price... not the most ex…

The Boeing Dreamliner is a beautiful piece of engineering and design, however in the past we've taken Boeing to task for the supply chain convolut…