We're not big fans of the big consulting houses, but the latest McKinsey Quarterly has an intriguing article titled Anatomy of a Healthy Organizat…

I might pity those poor souls that convinced their companies to chase low labor cost to China. Or maybe not. From The New York Times comes an article…

Today's post is guest authored by Craig Woll. Craig has a unique background in developing and applying instructional learning systems to lean manu…

Detroit is raving about the recent news that GM has practically matched Toyota in terms of factory productivity. General Motors Corp., once the symbo…

We've often talked about how lean manufacturing can be applied to other industries and activities, including software development. Those of us tha…

So much brainpower... what if it could have been put to good use?  We've all come across the laborious scientific studies that conclude the pa…

I've had several tidbits on outsourcing building up recently, so here's a quick post to clear them all out. Maybe it will also satisfy my ongo…

Finally back home and ready to start regular blogging again. But yesterday I realized that blogging, or even thinking about blogging, can be physicall…