One Option Is Competence
17 September 2010
The Washington Post wrote a storyabout Lighting Science Group decrying the loss of manufacturing jobs that result from American innovators. The gist o…
A Simple Diagnosis
31 August 2010
Kevin sent me an article some of the kids over at McKinsey wrote asking me for my expert opinion on just what drug they had been smoking. Knowing that…
Ivy Covered Waste
29 August 2010
At the University of Memphis you can get a master of science degree in engineering with a certificate in Applied Lean Leadership. It's mostly lean…
Brewing Up Some Manufacturing Tea
25 August 2010
"People are making a ton of money off of us and we're making nothing off of them."That quote from an unnamed woman from Chicago squarely…
Shingo - Another Ranter Weighs In
20 August 2010
None of the contributors - either bloggers or commenters - to Evolving Excellence, and no serious lean student anywhere would condone an organization…
Rounding Out The Week
20 August 2010
In Philly They're Partying Like It's 1979 Yesterday Irish reader Simon Cunnane fired up his DeLorean, cranked it up to 88 miles an hour…
Abuse of Entrusted Power for Private Gain
18 August 2010
Thanks to Joel Lown from the U of Tennessee for this article from Knoxvillebiz.com about a local company called Bailey Hydropower that outsourced manu…
Retail Is Starting To Figure It Out
17 August 2010
There is a big Walmart distribution center not far from where I live in rural Illinois. You can see it here. You can also see that all around it are…