Beyond Manufacturing

No, I'm not refering to your morning constitutional. Instead I mean the waste in your daily routine that keeps you from being more productive. Man…

Where are the new homes of top shelf economists? Universities? Nope. The government? Nope. Think tanks or Wall Street? Nope. Try companies, especially…

Six or so years ago when I was starting my contract manufacturing company I was really trying to implement lean manufacturing from the get-go. What an…

A hat tip to Timothy of the Zeal and Activity blog for pointing me to Dr. Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's J…

The free market is a wonderful thing. Left alone without excessive regulatory prodding and social engineering it finds the most efficient way to deliv…

Toyota calls it “lowering the water level.” Imagine a value stream or a production process as a river. Reducing the inventory in the process – “lower…

On my too-frequent flights to New York recently, I started reading Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. It's a trip up and down…

Those of us who have tip-toed into the world of blogs know that one day can be dramatically different from the next. The authors of Evolving Excellenc…