Organizations & Policy

Lean folks are naturally tuned to recognize unnecessary complexity, and most of us know the largest cost in a manufacturing operation is usually not t…

By Kevin Meyer It's been a while since we had a Fun With Statistics post, but fellow blogger Jason Yip just pointed me to PWC's just-released…

A few articles over the past week piqued my curiosity, again, on the impact of policy on global knowledge and wealth distribution. Regular readers kno…

By Kevin Meyer Traditional accounting does have its wackiness, and now our beloved GM is taking full advantage.  One of the crazier concepts and a to…

Yours truly was quoted in the latest issue of M&A journal The Deal Magazine in a cover story titled Revisiting Manufacturing. I was happy to see t…

I just returned from a very successful business trip to Shanghai. Contrary to what many companies are doing, mine is selling TO China, not outsourcing…

Those of us in the U.S. often look to our friends from the great white north for ideas on beer and policy. Yes I know those links date me a bit, but t…

My post about a week ago that took the Shingo Prize to task for awarding a version of the Prize to Callaway Golf, which has since chased cheap labor t…