An open letter to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill: Dear Paul, Don't get me wrong, it is great to have you on board the lean team. Eve…

Here we are again, quarterly earnings season. And here we are again with people who have no clue how to read even the most basic income statement or P…

A couple of things you might want to check out in the cultural arena ... Over on Christian Leanings I wrote a piece that has Meg Ryan squaring off ag…

I thought it was high time the air got a little clearer regarding this whole metrics business. After all, which metrics to use and their relative impo…

Gemba Academy has just released a new seven module online video training course on Total Productive Maintenance. In this pre-recorded, live trainin…

Bashing Mexico and Mexicans has become quite fashionable in the United States over the last few years. I do quite a bit of Mexican bashing myself, but…

Well another of the big five (or is it four or three by now?) consultancies has figured out that offshore outsourcing doesn't work. The strateg…

"As we continue to expand sales internationally, on the manufacturing front we have for the first time in a long while brought manufacturing…