Organizations & Policy

The annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence is in Chicago next week.  This is the largest lean conference in the world, and…

Many companies use "sales per employee" or "customers per employee" as measures of productivity and efficiency.  I've often wo…

Last week we learned that Newt Gingrich would not join the 2008 presidential race.  Although many of you may disagree with at least some of his politi…

I haven't picked on NAM too much recently, basically nothing since their drama of early this year when their small number of large manufacturer me…

A variety of sources got me to thinking about manufacturing jobs again today.  First, Steven commented on a post from a couple months ago that took a…

Quick!  What organization has, in about six months, gone from being virtually non-existent to being a larger employer than 96% of all U.S. businesses?…

Now there's a title for the squeamish!  But guess what... a few years from now you may be craving it.  An article in today's Knowledge@Wharton…

This is a little off topic, but many of you know that I have a fascination with economics, or perhaps a better way of saying it is that I have a fasci…