The Will 'O The Wisp of Value Streams
5 April 2006
There is a great article in CIO, which bills itself as "Australia's Magazine for Information Executives" called Fie On Fiefdoms , summar…
5 April 2006
There is a great article in CIO, which bills itself as "Australia's Magazine for Information Executives" called Fie On Fiefdoms , summar…
3 April 2006
As someone of Catonian persuasion, I have a general abhorrence to most regulations. I firmly believe that regulatory interference on a free market wil…
3 April 2006
When Michael Dell made his foray into selling cars through CarsDirect, that was OK with Detroit. All he did was put together a collection of dealers…
2 April 2006
On Sunday night, the trials and tribulations of GM were featured on the CBS show Sixty Minutes. Never ones to let the facts get in the way of a good…
2 April 2006
In some respects the lean manufacturing community is like the IT community. There are software people and there are hardware people, with not much co…
31 March 2006
Sometimes you just have to wonder about the thought processes in large companies. Actually I don't, as I used to work for a Fortune-50 medical dev…
31 March 2006
Just outside of Stuttgart lives a guy named Josef Horber who has been a thorn in my side for several months. He is a nice guy, very bright and energe…
30 March 2006
Toyota seems happy to perpetuate the myth that their kimono has always been wide open and they are willing to share the spirit and the mechanics of th…