I just returned from Chicago where I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.  The meetings are always in…

Our occasional guest author Dan Markovitz has an article in the latest Industry Week titled Get Lean Get Innovative where he discusses a common proble…

I came across a rather unique blog yesterday while mindlessly surfing the net during a flight layover.  BoomtownUSA by Jack Schultz is about... you gu…

I've long been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, and moving back to California several years ago only reinforced that lifestyle.  I think the last…

We'll probably see an increasing number of news stories this year on Toyota as they overtake GM as the number one automaker.  Last night the NBC N…

Last Sunday's issue of Parade, that rather cheesy newspaper insert that predominantly deals with important news from the world of Britney Spears a…

A couple days ago we provided a quick tally of companies we've talked about in the blog, separating them into "good" and "not so go…

Over the past year we've been telling you about the duel going on at the National Association of Manufacturers.  The NAM executive committee sided…