"Nothing wonderful about manufacturing jobs"
19 April 2006
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…
19 April 2006
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…
18 April 2006
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…
17 April 2006
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…
15 April 2006
There are two large lean-oriented Yahoo Group message boards, Bill Kluck's NWLean and Shahrukh Irani's JSLean. NWLean was originally started…
14 April 2006
Over the past decade we've witnessed the rapid maturing of Asian and Indian industrial companies from simple low labor cost assembly operations to…
13 April 2006
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…
12 April 2006
Most lean efforts begin with middle management (you know, the people with 'bad attitudes' that usually get the blame for lean failures ... fun…
12 April 2006
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…