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…

Now there's a title for the squeamish! But guess what... a few years from now you may be craving it. An article in today's Knowledge@Wharton t…

An article in last Sunday's Washington Post Magazine tells us about Marlin Steel Wire, a company that has found a way to be globally competitive f…

A few days ago we told you about a McKinsey study on how public organizations are beginning to implement lean manufacturing methods. Government has a…

Yesterday we told you about IBM claiming they are implementing lean manufacturing... by laying off people. Obviously this flies right in the face of r…

Here's a headline from last week: IBM Goes Lean. Sounds interesting, and the first sentence gives us hope that another company has seen the light…