A few months ago I told you about how my wife was training to run a marathon. She is running with the Team in Training group, which is a fundraising e…

We enjoy telling your about the problems with MRP systems, particularly some of the big software providers. Our friend Mark Edmondson of Lean Affiliat…

We've taken other companies to task for claiming they're lean while laying off people.  Not just laying off people in the face of severe busin…

We've told you several times before about how Wisconsin is pushing lean manufacturing. Mary Burke, the Secretary of the Commerce Department, is t…

A hat tip to our friend Karen at Lean Reflections for pointing us to this article on how Ford CEO Alan Mulally is trying to change the company's e…

Over the last few days I've been perousing some of the presentations from last year's TED conference. TED, or Technology, Education, and Desig…

Last month we had a post titled China Bites Wal-Mart, describing how long supply chains coupled with fickle customers created serious inventory proble…

Pay for performance and merit pay have become popular in the manufacturing world to incentivize increased output, and if done correctly, quality and i…