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 Desi…

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…

Have you heard about John Watson & Company, the printing firm from across the pond that supposedly hasn't laid off any employees in it's 1…

JP Rangaswami over at the Confused of Calcutta blog had an interesting post the other day on the dangers of the "inspection / repair culture.&quo…