AP's Tom Krisher penned a story last week titled GM, Ford at Different Stages of Recovery, where he proposes that GM is further along the transfor…

Friday's post on the 101 Dumbest Moments didn't discuss one incident we all heard of last year: Radio Shack firing 400 employees via an email…

While catching up on some reading on a flight yesterday I came across an article in Business 2.0 on the 101 Dumbest Moments: The Year's Biggest Bo…

GM continues to be insanely focused on "being number one"... number one in sales that is.  We've written before about how this is a mean…

Are Brazilians just naturally lean?  Is it something in their genes? I started to ponder that after flying, for the fourth time in the past seven day…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the lean transformation at Joseph Abboud.  Unlike most American apparel makers, they've kept their production in th…

Today's issue of Federal Computer Week gives us another story about how the U.S. military is turning to lean manufacturing methods to improve oper…

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