Basic Excellence

If you've been involved with lean manufacturing for a while you have probably started to see some discussion on "training within industry&quo…

One of the highlights of our trip to Belize last week was going out to the barrier reef, the second largest in the world.  Getting there required an h…

The New York Times published an article last week on how Toyota is teaching the Toyota Way to a new generation of foreign managers, in an effort to av…

Yesterday there was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled MBA Programs Take Fast Track that described how some executive business schools are s…

Are Brazilians just naturally lean?  Is it something in their genes? I started to ponder that after flying, for the fourth time in the past seven day…

I just returned from Chicago where I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.  The meetings are always in…

We'll probably see an increasing number of news stories this year on Toyota as they overtake GM as the number one automaker.  Last night the NBC N…

Next time you buy a suit, consider supporting Joseph Abboud. A recent Boston Globe article by Jenn Abelson (hassle-free link here) points to how the…