We've had a fascination with manufacturing productivity statistics for quite some time. Several months ago we began exploring a possible problem w…

Regular readers know that we have a pretty low opinion of MRP/ERP software and in general prefer the simple excellence of manual visual systems for sh…

Hopefully you caught the front page article in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday discussing how Parker-Hannifin completely revamped its pricing strat…

Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek, one of my favorite blogs, had a post yesterday titled Creating Value. It is ostensibly an introduction to a new book…

Many of you probably saw Monday's front page article in the Wall Street Journal on Boeing. It describes a problem many companies wish they had and…

Last month we told you about a couple more furniture companies that are following the outsourcing lemmings chasing cheaper labor overseas without look…

Ego seems to often get in the way of effective leadership. Yesterday we told you about a study that compared the size of S&P 500 CEO's homes a…

I admit it, I'm a metrics geek. I'm always on the lookout for new ways of measuring even inane processes, and always probing for the underlyin…