To the right is the cover of the latest Intel human resources manual - at least it is the manual Andy Grove is writing.  When the folks at Intel were…

Thirty pages into a painful book on organizational behavior by an academic named Howard Schwartz, I came to a chapter in which he expounds on the anti…

Over the past several months, we have published a number of articles and blog posts concerning MRP, its origins and its role - if any - in lean manufa…

How about if we move all of the suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to regular federal prisons and convert the pens at Gitmo to a special prison…

There is no aspect of lean more important than Lean Accounting.  When you boil it all down, the reason many of you are having a hard time getting supp…

Just about everyone is familiar with the story of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and namesake of the famous Prizes - or at least they are familiar…

In going through my morning routine of perusing the news in search of interesting developments in the world of manufacturing, I encountered nothing un…

Here I go bashing software again.  Really, I think computers are great tools.  I obviously use one quite often to write the blog. I use one even more…