Debt per person means just that. I don't know what the average American family of four is worth, but it owes $339,456. My guess is that most are g…

I am rarely the first lean consultant my clients hire. I do, however, expect to be the last one they hire. I typically work with companies that have b…

Ron Pereira at Gemba Academy recently had the opportunity to sit down with Masaaki Imai, the fascinating founder of the Kaizen Institute and author of…

So what does a typical city do when commuter trains and buses reach capacity? Add more capacity of course - unless you're broke. But perhaps there…

As I wrote of GM's obsession with the same wrong issues nearly six years ago, "unless lightning strikes the Ren Center in Detroit, sparking a…

Thanks to SME for this great, short manufacturing video; and thanks to Jerry Miller for sharing it with me. Hope you all take a few minutes to watch…

I get a lot of email from people urging their product, cause or point of view on me as blog fodder. 99% of those unsolicited emails are deleted unopen…

I thought it might be worthwhile to sort out some of the bumbling, blathering nonsense related to manufacturing flowing from the President and Preside…