Steve Conover over at one my favorite blogs, The Skeptical Optimist, had a fascinating post the other day discussing "useful" and "not-…

If you are not smarter than a 5th grader it may not be entirely your fault. It turns out that most of us just can’t remember the things that were told…

Quick! What organization has, in about six months, gone from being virtually non-existent to being a larger employer than 96% of all U.S. businesses?…

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…