Scrappy? Not hardly!
8 June 2011
Perhaps the most poorly titled article I have read - ever - is "The Scrappiest Car Manufacturer in America" that appeared in the June 6-12 i…
The High Price of Locks
6 June 2011
Another in a long line of contentious debates is raging in Washington, this one with a direct bearing on lean manufacturing. The Trade Adjustment Assi…
What Do You Think?
3 June 2011
What are you thinking about? What do you think the people in your organization are thinking about? What are they actually thinking about? These are so…
Heroic and Lean at the Same Time
29 May 2011
364 days a year the government with all of its goofy bureaucracy is an easy target for us lean bloggers. On this day, however, Memorial Day 2011, it s…
This and That
27 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL Who Needs Harvard When They Can Go To Dayton? The University of Dayton has put an accounting professor by the name of Joseph Castell…
When Cost Reduction Is Profit Reduction
25 May 2011
A story in the LA Times the other day discussed "greenwashing" - cloaking something in dubious claims of environmental friendliness to make…
More Thad Newth For Thteve Jobth and Fokthconn
22 May 2011
There is nothing humorous about the deaths of 3 people and serious injuries to a dozen or more others in Apple's Foxconn factory in China over the…
Catching Up On Things
19 May 2011
Some of the more interesting news items over the last few days ... Globalization the right way People from Brazil, China, Canada, Finland and Austra…