If you want the news quick, check blogs first.  We at Superfactory just learned that the hard way when at least two blogs scooped us on our own announ…

Regular readers know that we don't exactly have a high opinion of most books on the latest leadership fads.  Bill once commented that it requires…

History can be a great calibrator.  Sometimes we can't see the complexity around us simply because it is all too familiar, too comfortable, and ju…

In 2005 Boeing decided to sell the Wichita/Tulsa Division of its Commercial Airplanes group to Toronto-based Onex for about $900 million in cash, nami…

Many of you may have caught Alan Blinder's front page article in the Wall Street Journal last week titled Pain From Free Trade Spurs Second Though…

UCLA is no longer going to be in the NCAA basketball championship dance, most likely due to the jinx that our fellow lean blogger Mike placed on them.…

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

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…