Companies

I’ve chosen to address a fairly morbid topic today: Death. Death is inevitable. As of yet, modern science has not created a cure for death. There are…

Earlier this year Mark over at the Lean Blog did a poll of the "Best Lean Companies." After over 800 votes the results were pretty much as e…

Once again we've come across a great example of a company that knows how to be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories, even in a relativel…

The business "section" of my local small-town newspaper has a regular feature that updates the status of previously featured local companies…

A lot of companies are working on lean these days, and perhaps some of them are your competitors.  Each day Google is nice enough to send me a lis…

Those of us that have gone through a lean transformation or two know that it is hard, very hard. Probably the most difficult aspect is learning what y…

Imagine there was a major, global company. A company that used to make virtually all of their subassemblies within twenty miles of the final assembly…

Parker Hannifin has long been one of my favorite real lean companies.  As a lucky shareholder, yesterday I received their annual report.  The very fir…