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Honda Profits from Soybeans

I’m not sure if you can strictly call this “lean”, but I like this example of creative thinking on Honda’s part. It certainly illustrates an example of waste reduction, namely the waste of shipping empty containers. Making use of trucks…

Wal-Mart CEO "Forced" to Source Globally?

I’m currently reading a fascinating and eye opening book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, of the New York Times. Friedman has written numerous books on globalization and the Middle East,…