This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012. Toyota calls it…

Those of us that have started small businesses, especially ones with actual employees, become rather intimate with government bureaucracy... local, st…

Two steps forward, one step back. Lean healthcare initiatives have really been taking off at several locations around the country. Costs are being red…

I've long been a fan of Colin Powell's leadership style, as I consider it to be both human-centric while holding those same people accountable…

If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, did it make a sound? If time doesn't exist, can there be just-in-time manufacturing? Those are…

Last week's Fun With Statistics post on the Minneapolis bridge news, note I purposely did not call it a "catastrophe" or "disaster,…

Yesterday we told you about a new blog, Lean Software Engineering. Those of us that have lead groups that included software engineers know that softwa…

This morning on my drive to work I was listening to a podcast of a speech given in 1991 (Link to transcript; Link to audio). The speaker related the f…