NAM, The Manufacturing Institute, and RSM McGladrey just published a 62 page report on The Future Success of Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers.  We…

You can tell that I'm a manufacturing guy without a lick of sense when it comes to marketing.  If I were smart, I would change the name of my busi…

I can almost feel the consternation in the outsourcing think tanks at the strategy departments of narrow-minded companies and consultants all over Nor…

Way back in the day (a day in 1974 to be precise), Ollie Wight wrote a book called "Production and Inventory Management In The Computer Age"…

Apparently every serious business article these days must include the word "innovation".  So I guess it's about time I wrote something s…

How much do you know about how employees view your improvement programs? I just came across some interesting links to Bill's post on Dell getting…

I came across a rather inane article not long ago in which some self-proclaimed expert on supplier development argued that companies should focus on h…

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…