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

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 p…

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

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 com…

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 con…

One of my favorite blogs, Cafe Hayek, had an intriguing post earlier this week titled Competing With High-Wage Workers.  Don Boudreaux's premise i…

If you've been involved with lean manufacturing for a while you have probably started to see some discussion on "training within industry&quo…