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If there weren't so many real lives damaged, reading the stuff Alfred Sloan and Walter Reuther wrote back in the 1950's would be almost comica…

Most lean efforts begin with middle management (you know, the people with 'bad attitudes' that usually get the blame for lean failures ... fun…

I have to put in a plug for a new book called JIT Is Flow by Hiroyuki Hirano.  In the interest of full disclosure, yeah, I had a small hand in editing…

Walmart's business model has long been biased against American manufacturers.  They have forced American companies to compete on Asian producers&#…

So you think manufacturing productivity is way up, do you?  Think again. Every genius from those employed by the government to the academic community…

Toyota is all over the news this weekend - especially in Detroit.  As usual, everything about them is impressive, and as usual, few people, if any, ev…

There is a great article in CIO, which bills itself as "Australia's Magazine for Information Executives" called Fie On Fiefdoms , summar…

As someone of Catonian persuasion, I have a general abhorrence to most regulations. I firmly believe that regulatory interference on a free market wil…