Interesting lean news continues to flow from the UK, and the latest eyebrow raiser is the assertion by the folks at a company called Preactor that lea…

There is more lean nonsense floating around, this under the heading "Aviation Company Soars With 'Lean' HR". The gist of the article…

Telecommuting and the virtual office have been around for many years. Oftentimes the barriers to implementing telecommuting are managers so short-sigh…

A couple of guys named William - Trudell and Carreira - recently wrote a new lean book called "Lean Six Sigma That Works" and, while I haven…

A couple days ago Jim Press, President of Toyota Motor North America, gave a talk to the National Press Club in Washington. He talked about the histor…

Organic cucumbers, vegetarians, global warming... and lean manufacturing. An unlikely combination? Not in the latest issue of Grist Magazine, which pr…

I was going through some old files earlier today and came across a letter to the editor from yours truly that was published in Business Week... on Oct…

By Art Smalley This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…