Companies

The last couple weeks have brought the story of yet another icon of business, Kodak, collapsing and filing for bankruptcy. Yes, failure a key componen…

I really have no words. Well, you know that's impossible. But Austin Weber's article on Assembly Magazine's website that glorified the sup…

Bill's post on Steve Jobs earlier today drew quite a bit of response - from both sides. Lots of supporting comments on the post itself, lots of em…

One piece flow is a core concept of lean and thanks to its counterintuitive nature also one of the more difficult ones to embrace. We naturally want t…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past several years I've taken Boeing to task, sometimes severely, on their 787 Dreamliner program. By now we know that th…

Last week brought us two stories of two companies mentioning their respective lean manufacturing efforts. I thought I'd show you a couple quotes a…

Yesterday I came across a video created by McDonald's in the UK that attempts to demonstrate the value of being a McDonald's employee - and re…

We've talked about Tesco before - how they are destroying the idea that economies of scale are important and are instead focusing on creating valu…