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 boo…

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 an…

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…

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 underlyi…

New Balance is well known for their focus on lean manufacturing, which has allowed them to be globally competitive from factories in the United States…

Each day I use a news aggregation service to scour thousands of publications around the globe to bring you the latest in lean manufacturing news.  Nin…

Over the past few months we've blogged twice on the story of Joseph Abboud, the suit designer that is leveraging lean manufacturing to keep their…