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Right from the get-go I want to make it clear that it is not my purpose to bash Ford. I am citing their numbers due solely to laziness. As the only Am…

The good ol' folks down in Georgia have a way of nailing things right on the head. This from Alan Barfoot with the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovat…

I rail against the incompetence of the big publicly traded companies as loudly as anyone, however, I have to scratch my head at the notion that small,…

The end of the year draws nigh and ten or eleven months of ignoring supply chains in general, and inventory in particular is coming home to roost in e…

In most companies sales and manufacturing are two distinct and separate - often opposing - entities. The sales folks are physically, intellectually, o…

Toyota took the fundamentals of lean from the likes of Ford and Deming and others decades ago, crafted it into TPS in the 60s and 70s which enabled th…

A couple of interesting stories to touch on before we wrap up the short Thanksgiving week: Kevin pointed out the absurdity of Whirlpool being proclai…

Loyalty, forgiveness, a team focus ... these are all admirable traits of organizational culture ...to a point. When loyalty morphs into blindness, f…