Companies

It's that time of the year again and those of us that own stocks are beginning to receive the annual reports.  In most cases I just skim through t…

The furor surrounding executive pay usually centers on either the (gross) disconnect between performance and pay or the somewhat vaguer feeling that i…

New Balance is well known for their focus on lean manufacturing, which has allowed them to be globally competitive from factories in the United States…

Each day I use a news aggregation service to scour thousands of publications around the globe to bring you the latest in lean manufacturing news.  Nin…

Over the past few months we've blogged twice on the story of Joseph Abboud, the suit designer that is leveraging lean manufacturing to keep their…

Is it me or are there more stories lately about companies that are finding ways to compete globally from North America?  Companies that realize lean m…

Thanks to Peter Marx for the tip that John Newhouse, author of Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Bus…

It's always a good day when I can add a new name to the "good" side of the list of companies mentioned in this blog, and today is such a…