The General Relativity of Language
4 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an intriguing article a week or so ago by Peter Coy on the impending debt crisis - now temporarily shoved u…
Yep, Forgetting the Brains Again
1 August 2011
By Kevin Meyer Another day, another company forgetting that there's a value-adding brain attached to the pair of hands that supposedly costs so m…
Handguns, Mathematics and Supply Chain Management
31 July 2011
by BILL WADDELL Guns and algorithms have a lot in common. Both are tools that, in the hands of the right person, can be powerful forces for good. O…
Private Jets and the Simplicity of Production Scheduling
31 July 2011
By Kevin Meyer Private aircraft have taken a beating recently, partly fair partly not. They can be written off as a "cost of doing business&quo…
The Consequences of Intellectual Laziness
27 July 2011
by BILL WADDELL "What's the use you learning to do right when its troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wage…
$59 billion Down the Rat Hole
26 July 2011
by BILL WADDELL I have met many Chevy lovers in my day, a good number of dedicated Cadillac drivers, guys who swear by Dodge Ram trucks and even a Bu…
This Week's Roundup
25 July 2011
by BILL WADDELL The tragedy of batch thinking Lean folks spend a lot of time agonizing over shrinking production batch sizes, but transportation bat…
Better Off Smart Than Sexy
25 July 2011
by BILL WADDELL SEXY In an article on CNN - Why big data is suddenly sexy - the CEO of SAS says "For example, we are working with Macy's f…