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…

We've mentioned the reshoring phenomena several times lately. Many companies are finally waking up to the realities of total cost when dealing wit…

A Wall Street Journal a few weeks back described how "CEOs Fight To Prevent Discretionary Spending From Creeping Back Up." I have absolutely…

by BILL WADDELL Last week I traveled close to 400 miles to spend a day explaining Lean Accounting and the Lean Enterprise management infrastructure t…

Half a year ago Bill made an interesting prediction on the future of Volkswagen that made several of us wonder what he might have been smoking. But on…

PIGS Perhaps the folks running the big container shipping lines are genuinely concerned about the environment and their carbon footprint. Maybe…

Regular readers know that a pet peeve of mine is the lack of true root cause analysis and long-term perspective by presumably well-intended but short-…