Financial Issues

Probably the biggest hurdle for ops guys when they transition into general management roles is learning about sales, marketing, and especially pricing…

So .... Golden Bear Ltd gets the contract to produce the official mascot for the 2012 British Olymic Team, and decides labor costs - excuse me, labour…

This past week has seen a trio of articles explicitly lay out the crisis, misperception, and opportunity of manufacturing in America. Two great articl…

Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an intriguing article a week or so ago by Peter Coy on the impending debt crisis - now temporarily shoved under the carpet…

Another day, another company forgetting that there's a value-adding brain attached to the pair of hands that supposedly costs so much. The differe…

Here we are again, quarterly earnings season. And here we are again with people who have no clue how to read even the most basic income statement or P…

We probably aren't making any friends over at McKinsey, not that we really care. From nearly destroying Lego to figuring out that silo organizatio…

I had a warm feeling in my heart a few months ago when I heard about the Philips fluorescent lighting plant in Sparta, Tennessee winning an Industry W…