Global companies labor under fixed costs such as taxation but can control variable costs such as labor, IT infrastructures, and repetitive processes. Both wireless technology (e.g., RFID, GPS, real-time location systems, and mobile computing) and the continuous improvement discipline (including lean and Six Sigma) target variable costs; together, they provide a methodology of creating and applying business rules that drive down variable costs. This Executive Report examines this combined "lean wireless" paradigm.