Why Portugal?
23 June 2006
Part of the culture that drove the Aberdeen BAE Systems plant (United Defense while I was there) to become extraordinarily lean was the continual posi…
23 June 2006
Part of the culture that drove the Aberdeen BAE Systems plant (United Defense while I was there) to become extraordinarily lean was the continual posi…
22 June 2006
We've talked about this before... what happens to supply chain risk when you become very, very lean? In the June 17th issue of The Economist ther…
22 June 2006
One sour aspect of the World Cup that is quite a bit like some professional sports in the U.S. is the tendency of many good players to lose sight of t…
21 June 2006
To quote the favorite phrase of a friend of mine, it's like jabbing a pointed stick in my eye. Yesterday I got a call from the owner of a local m…
21 June 2006
The June 26th issue of BusinessWeek has a "special advertising section" entitled "Outsourcing Round Table". Perhaps Bill's re…
21 June 2006
Hes a one trick pony One trick is all that horse can do He does one trick only Its the principal source of his revenue I believe Paul Simon was reall…
20 June 2006
According to the Swindon Business News, "Manufacturers of items such as luxury jams, hand-built furniture and studio-quality home audio equipment…
19 June 2006
In the latest twist on the London Mail On Sunday article accusing Apple of making IPods in sweatshops in China, Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that ow…