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 th…

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 patent…

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 ong…

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

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…

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

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…