Private Jets and the Simplicity of Production Scheduling
31 July 2011
Private aircraft have taken a beating recently, partly fair partly not. They can be written off as a "cost of doing business" just like innu…
The Consequences of Intellectual Laziness
27 July 2011
"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 wages is just the…
$59 billion Down the Rat Hole
26 July 2011
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 Buick fan or two. B…
This Week's Roundup
25 July 2011
The tragedy of batch thinking Lean folks spend a lot of time agonizing over shrinking production batch sizes, but transportation batches can…
Better Off Smart Than Sexy
25 July 2011
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 for markdo…
J&J Takes a Rupert
24 July 2011
The other day I compared the Rupert Murdoch -'I'm not responsible for the utter disregard for ethics that pervades my company; it's all mi…
Leaning Up the Tax Code
23 July 2011
When organizations get far enough along the lean journey they inevitably ask the obvious question: Why are we doing all of this cross-functional value…
Dig Deeper Part 2: Baggage and Boarding Nonsense
22 July 2011
A couple weeks ago I told you about how Singapore is finding a solution to transit system capacity problems that doesn't require vast investments…