Another performance measurement of the auto industry came out, with the usual results:  Toyota way out ahead of the pack, followed in order by Honda,…

A few days ago, I announced that Economy of Scale was dead.  Those who took the time to read the comments may have noted that Eric Husman disagreed.…

I just returned from a couple weeks of R&R in Italy, and it looks like I have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up on.  Last year while visiti…

When Coke and Walmart tussle over distribution issues, it should be a clinic of leading edge thinking.  The rest of the world should be able to sit ba…

Sometimes a title conveys all you need to know to judge something.  For instance, I heard that Toby Keith approached Willie Nelson at an awards show a…

It is about to become painfully, crystal clear:  The essential innovation Toyota made was SMED - Single Minute Exchange of Dies. Nothing else about th…

Costikyan Jarvis, of Jarvis Cutting Tools, recently wrote to me about a manufacturing executive program he recently attended at Harvard, in which the…

This Friday, an epic global struggle between workers and management will begin.  It has nothing to do with labor unions or socialism - in fact Karl Ma…