John Stossel from ABC doesn't have an MBA.  His got a psychology degree from Princeton, but he seems to think like an MBA holder. So does Neil Cav…

This Thursday, the 20th, Norm Bodek is slated to receive the Certified Grand Master Six Sigma Medal at an event hosted by the Portland, Oregon (Norm&#…

In the articles section, there is a great interview Art Smalley had with Toyota veteran Ike Kato called Shigeo Shingo's Influence on TPS, in which…

There are two large lean-oriented Yahoo Group message boards, Bill Kluck's NWLean and Shahrukh Irani's JSLean.  NWLean was originally started…

Over the past decade we've witnessed the rapid maturing of Asian and Indian industrial companies from simple low labor cost assembly operations to…

If there weren't so many real lives damaged, reading the stuff Alfred Sloan and Walter Reuther wrote back in the 1950's would be almost comica…

Most lean efforts begin with middle management (you know, the people with 'bad attitudes' that usually get the blame for lean failures ... fun…

I have to put in a plug for a new book called JIT Is Flow by Hiroyuki Hirano.  In the interest of full disclosure, yeah, I had a small hand in editing…