The Pecking Order
27 April 2011
by BILL WADDELL For those unfamiliar with the gentleman's agreement governing the make-up of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) there are…
27 April 2011
by BILL WADDELL For those unfamiliar with the gentleman's agreement governing the make-up of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) there are…
25 April 2011
by BILL WADDELL What are we to make of the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics being tasked - and funded - to count the number of '…
23 April 2011
By Kevin Meyer In this edition of Fun With Statistics we'll tackle the brouhaha over the past couple days regarding the discovery that the iPhone…
22 April 2011
By Kevin Meyer I haven't exactly been Boeing's best friend over the past several years, regularly taking them to task for their nutty 787 Dre…
21 April 2011
by BILL WADDELL The risk assessment folks are going to have to crank up their models and add "instance connectivity, latency and error rates&quo…
21 April 2011
by BILL WADDELL The EPA has recently released their study of the costs and benefits of the Clean Air Act and its proposed rather draconian expansion.…
19 April 2011
By Kevin Meyer Another day, another article that makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Thirty people at the Stark Manufacturing plant in P…
19 April 2011
By Kevin Meyer Lean folks are naturally tuned to recognize unnecessary complexity, and most of us know the largest cost in a manufacturing operation…