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I visited a company (actually this could be many companies) recently and noticed “7 Wastes” posters displayed prominently in every department...

I was listening to Alan Robinson present last week at the Lean Systems Summit about the power of “small ideas.” Alan wondered aloud why so many..

In December, I took my son, Ben, to an Edgar Winter concert at a Worcester, Mass theater. Do you remember Edgar Winter? A tall, lanky dude who in the..

In the spring of 1989, Shigeo Shingo addressed the 14th annual Productivity Conference at Utah State University. On this occasion there were seven..

It’s now been about four years since the Dow began its precipitous decline, and about three since the invention of the expression “too big to fail”..

Significant digits, the number of digits to the right of a decimal point that are warranted by the accuracy of the means of measurement, are a..

As I watched Keith Lockhart conduct the Boston Pops to celebrate America’s birthday on July 4, another revolution that was occurring around the same..

One of the more dubious outcomes of the French Revolution was the standardization of guillotining as the sole (and oft-employed) manner of capital..

I was listening today to a song from The Platters (there are just a few of you who will remember that group) that was the inspiration for this post:

The following is a true story but told with time compression – a nine month period shortened to three – in order cover the events in less than two..