Wal-Mart is in a bit of a pickle.  Over the last decade they have focused incessantly on unit cost,  ostensibly to provide reduced price and therefore…

It's Saturday, and many of us are looking forward to eating out.  Actually my wife and I basically eat out every night anyway, so it's no big…

I know, I know... I just wrote about SAP and complexity.  Just yesterday.  But leave it to SAP, purveyor of the most complex software solution for the…

Our friend Mark Graban at the Lean Blog has started to coin the term "LAME" for "lean as misguidedly executed" in an attempt to de…

I always thought that top executives are usually the most hard core evangelists for a company, sometimes to a fault.  But not Hasso Plattner, co-found…

Yesterday our friend Karen Wilhelm of the Lean Reflections blog wrote a post titled My Message to Barack Obama.  She has decided that Obama deserves h…

Over the past year we've been telling you how an alliance called the "Domestic Manufacturing Group" has been raising cain at NAM.  This…

And now for the most ridiculous item of the day... The U.S. Patent Office approved the trademark "Lean Procurement(TM)," a strategic servic…