Lean by Design

I just came across an interesting business today that I thought was worth sharing. If you have followed this blog at all, you know that I am interested in the importance of technology and business innovation, as well as the changing sources of that innovation. This particular business caught my attention for three reasons. First, [...]

This month the McKinsey Quarterly published a brief article on ‘The productivity imperative’, siting the need for significant productivity improvements in developed countries over the coming years in order to sustain wealth and standards of living. The authors did a commendable job pointing out some of the many challenges in achieving the necessary productivity improvements, [...]

When I was growing up in Ottawa, Canada, my parents and grandparents always reminded me that if I worked hard I could be any thing I wanted to be. It was a concept that I took for granted. I was blessed to have been born into a free and relatively prosperous society, and so within [...]

An article in the NYTimes today provided yet another example of the kind of inefficiency endemic with our Health Care system today. The specific example is American, but Canadian health care is vulnerable to the same abuses, the only difference being the funder or ‘insurance company’ is the government in the Canadian context. American or [...]