Yesterday, Kevin wrote about Jim Womack's latest piece in the Wall Street Journal, including his statement that General Motors and Ford are "…

Over the past few weeks we've taken Jim Womack to task for not being blunt enough with the situation in Detroit.  This is because we have tremendo…

As a student of everything having to do with lean manufacturing, and Henry Ford, in particular, I have long been stymied by Ford's racial and ethn…

I came across an article a few days ago that described a project launched by Intel to have some of their people attend a school for auto racing pit cr…

Kathleen Fasanella, of Fashion Incubator fame, sent me her book, The Entrepreneur's Guide To Sewn Products Manufacturing.  While I have not plowed…

Yesterday Jim Womack issued another lean epistle, this one called "A Tale of Two Business Systems" - go ahead and read it.  Every word of it…

I received a letter from the UAW last week that was both pleasing and perplexing.  I had asked Carly Murdy, Director of the UAW Education Department,…

About a month back I wrote a piece eloquently titled "Putting Perfume On A Pig", in which I blasted the collection of people so smart they h…