Walmart's business model has long been biased against American manufacturers.  They have forced American companies to compete on Asian producers&#…

So you think manufacturing productivity is way up, do you?  Think again. Every genius from those employed by the government to the academic community…

Toyota is all over the news this weekend - especially in Detroit.  As usual, everything about them is impressive, and as usual, few people, if any, ev…

There is a great article in CIO, which bills itself as "Australia's Magazine for Information Executives" called Fie On Fiefdoms , summar…

As someone of Catonian persuasion, I have a general abhorrence to most regulations. I firmly believe that regulatory interference on a free market wil…

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…

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…

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…