Columbia Aircraft lays off 59 employees. On the surface not a unique story as unfortunately many companies are laying off... and even more are hiring…

I read a lot of blogs each day, probably well over 100. Using an aggregator like Bloglines or even the new Google feed reader makes it actually fairly…

A couple weeks ago we told you about transnational flights of knowledge created by short-sighted government tax or regulatory situations. Highly-skill…

Regular readers know that a recurring theme in this blog is the oft-forgotten "respect for people" pillar of lean manufacturing and the Toyo…

How many times have we heard the phrase "lean manufacturing won't work here, we're different!"? More times than I can count, from pe…

Through a rather amazing political confluence, Airbus' CEO Louis Gallois announced approval of their new Power8 restructuring plan. We've chro…

The BBC has been pushing the lean impact of the auto wars over the past few days. Two days ago they had a story on The Triumph of Lean Production comp…

The current Knowledge @ Wharton has an article on an emerging trend to pay for equipment only when it is performing to expectations. This type of cont…