The Consequences of Intellectual Laziness
27 July 2011
"What's the use you learning to do right when its troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the…
$59 billion Down the Rat Hole
26 July 2011
I have met many Chevy lovers in my day, a good number of dedicated Cadillac drivers, guys who swear by Dodge Ram trucks and even a Buick fan or two. B…
This Week's Roundup
25 July 2011
The tragedy of batch thinking Lean folks spend a lot of time agonizing over shrinking production batch sizes, but transportation batches can…
Better Off Smart Than Sexy
25 July 2011
SEXY In an article on CNN - Why big data is suddenly sexy - the CEO of SAS says "For example, we are working with Macy's for markdo…
J&J Takes a Rupert
24 July 2011
The other day I compared the Rupert Murdoch -'I'm not responsible for the utter disregard for ethics that pervades my company; it's all mi…
Leaning Up the Tax Code
23 July 2011
When organizations get far enough along the lean journey they inevitably ask the obvious question: Why are we doing all of this cross-functional value…
Of Honor and Weasels
21 July 2011
"I am Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corporation. I would first like to state that I love cars as much as anyone, and I love Toyota as much as a…
"Theoretical Assumptions and Nonobserved Facts"
20 July 2011
An old Russian/German guy by the name of Wassily Leontief once said of economists, "We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assu…