By John Henry This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

Over the past few months we've told you many stories of companies returning to North America as they realize that the reality of offshore manufact…

It's been almost exactly five years since Bill and I took the Shingo Prize to task (to put it gently) for some rather bizarre selections of suppos…

Just to make sure we don't get lulled into a false state of bucolic complacency with so many companies "re-shoring" back to America, the…

Ever since I started doing the One Day Assessments about a year ago I have been getting hit with people asking how I can possibly evaluate so many asp…

A little over two years ago the British Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, said: "We must make the UK the b…

I came across this story of a Who's Who of world class offshore outsourcers - GE who trashed over 100,000 manufacturing jobs in the US, Motorola w…

In this edition of our irregular Fun with Statistics series we take a look at an oft-unforeseen pitfall of analysis: inadvertently framing the analysi…