New Definition of Comparative Advantage
4 March 2010
The explanation from those on high for throwing American manufacturing - as well as manufacturing in western Europe and Australia - under the bus is t…
Hold the phone!
1 March 2010
Last week Dan posted a piece about some guys who reinvented the lean wheel over on the Harvard Business Review, and dubbed it M4L4M - More For Less Fo…
Look Down Under For Great Ideas
28 February 2010
I am heading back to the land of kangaroos and koalas soon to partner for a couple of weeks with KAON Consulting and the State of Queensland. In fact,…
The Deadly Sin of Gluttony
25 February 2010
Some day someone will write a book about the thirty year battle between GM and Toyota to be the biggest that, like Otus and Ephialtes of Greek mytholo…
Dawning of a New Manufacturing Age
22 February 2010
Abraham Lincoln talked in parables quite often and one of his favorites was to ask someone, "If you call his tail a leg, how many legs does a dog…
Excellence Can Only Come From The Source
18 February 2010
More years ago than I care to admit I became a plant manager at the ripe age of 29 with a mandate to fix a serious safety problem. I worked at it nigh…
If Not ROI, Then What?
17 February 2010
After years of trashing Return On Investment - the DuPont ROI model, in particular - as a measure of manufacturing success, or as the decision making…
How Did Cows and Dirt Get So Sexy?
16 February 2010
So I'm reading this story over on CNN about a new corporate structure called an L3C that basically allows charities and foundations to plow their…