Organizations & Policy

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article (subscription only) on the way that Home Depot, in the wake of CEO Bob Nardelli's depart…

Who is the true customer of a manufacturing company?  The end user?  Or is it the employees?  The shareholders?  Or the country the company has operat…

Friday's Wall Street Journal featured an article on how the CEO of AutoNation, Michael Jackson, is fed up and won't take it anymore.  He's…

Over the past year we've been telling you about the duel going on at the National Association of Manufacturers.  The NAM executive committee sided…

Over the past week we've been exploring whether the outsourcing or offshoring of subassemblies, later finished, in the United States, has a hidden…

Earlier this week we discussed the myth of manufacturing productivity, and how the number may not account correctly for reduced labor resulting from s…

The Business and Media Institute is out with it's list of the Top Ten Economic Myths of 2006 report, which includes all sorts of fun subjects like…

I've always been curious why, in the face of increasing competitive pressure, some companies embrace lean while others just complain or turn a bli…