Bob Lutz and Mark Fields have talked loud and often about the urgent need to create exciting, innovative products.  GM will be saved when Lutz comes u…

I learned innovation's proper perspective when I had the privilege of translating Hiroyuki Hirano's book, JIT Is Flow, from the crude Jangales…

I imagine just about everyone has heard of the guy in Philadelphia who put the sign in his cheesesteak joint saying, "This is America. When order…

As you are reading this, at least six academics and a dozen consultants are probably writing up case studies and white papers on the body shop's &…

There's a guy named Giarrizzo running a chain of body shops in Cleveland who is taking them nationwide and hopes to patent lean manufacturing - he…

There is quite a big stink being made over a story that first appeared in the London Mail on Sunday newspaper and is now available online.  The charge…

A funny thing happened to the folks at Cadbury Schweppes on their way to implementing a global IT strategy with the clever acronym, PROBE (Program for…

Everyone knows the analogy Ohno used to describe inventory - that it is represented by the water level in a river full of rocks.  Lean manufacturers s…