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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

By Kevin Meyer Lean folks are naturally tuned to recognize unnecessary complexity, and most of us know the largest cost in a manufacturing operation…

by BILL WADDELL The most important thing in life is not what you did in the past but what you do next.  That is particularly important if you happen…

By Kevin Meyer A few days ago The Wall Street Journal had a book review on John Kay's Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly .  I…