Basic Excellence

Remember those college days, a couple decades or more ago, when we visited the coin-op laundromat each week or so?  It's been a while.  But I stil…

Those of us in the lean world know the power of visual controls to convey information, metrics, and methods.  But can the design of the visual control…

John Hunter at Curious Cat has asked several of us to help co-host part of a larger scale Management Carnival Best of 2008 series where several blogge…

A good friend of mine, Dan Peters, sent me a link to one of the many articles emerging in the last 24 hours on Toyota’s 11 day shutdown of its domesti…

We've taken McKinsey to task several times over the past year, especially with regards to their "thinking" on supply chains.  But last m…

Note: Links to all of four Japan factory tour posts and the various lessons from those tours can be found here. While traveling to Japan a few days a…

Thanks to an already hectic travel schedule, including going to Japan this Friday, this was the first year in many that I wasn't able to make the…

There's a guy in Los Angeles (where else?) that's undertaking a bit of a strange project in order to change his impact on the environment. Lo…