Most folks in the U.S. have never heard of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC).  They will.  SAIC has a joint venture with General Motors…

The Gemba Panta Rei blog has an interesting post on lean government, specifically discussing the successes at the postal services in Denmark and Canad…

I recently had a chance to catch up with an old colleague - my first boss, in fact - who is now a senior executive with a Midwestern manufacturing com…

As the third quarter ends many of us begin to plan for 2006.  In some organizations this is a regimented formal process with very defined inputs and o…

There has been a flurry of activity in the last year trying to integrate the concepts of Six Sigma and Lean.  A lot of it is driven by consultants loo…

I had the opportunity to present a few thoughts at the first Lean Accounting Summit in Dearborn, Michigan last week and it was an uplifting experience…

Sad to say, most people did not actually read the 9/11 Commission Report, leaving it to CNN or Fox News to tell them what to think about it.  That'…

There is a very interesting article in the Cincinnati Enquirer this morning, written by Yuri Kageyama of the AP, titled Japanese Remain Wary of Borrow…