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…

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…

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…

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…

The June 26th issue of BusinessWeek has a "special advertising section" entitled "Outsourcing Round Table".  Perhaps Bill's re…

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…

According to the Swindon Business News, "Manufacturers of items such as luxury jams, hand-built furniture and studio-quality home audio equipment…

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…