It seems to me there is another fundamental aspect of lean manufacturing that needs to have the harsh light of reality shone upon it: this business of…

Dan Markovitz is our guest blogger today, with a post asking yet again if GM's leadership really gets it. Dan has been a regular contributor of ar…

A week ago we told you about how a combination of fake lean and traditional accounting is wreaking havoc at Whirlpool. Over a thousand people are bein…

The turn of the new year stimulates many of us to look back... and hopefully look forward. This is important, and could even be construed to be the &q…

I know it's not just a German or even European thing, but this morning we have yet another example of our friends from across the pond promoting a…

Over the past year I've given Dr. Shahrukh Irani of Ohio State a pretty hard time, especially in the post The False God of the Almighty Algorithm.…

Last week one of my favorite blogs, The Skeptical Optimist, had a post titled Grow or Die.  In it Steve Conover proposes that companies must grow,…

When you read about a company, there is one very notable combination of phrases that will immediately tell you that they are probably knee-deep into r…