I might pity those poor souls that convinced their companies to chase low labor cost to China.  Or maybe not.  From The New York Times comes an articl…

Today's post is guest authored by Craig Woll.  Craig has a unique background in developing and applying instructional learning systems to lean man…

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…