All The Wrong Moves
9 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL A quick quiz to test your knowledge of manufacturing excellence - When faced with a serious quality problem a company should: A. Dra…
Special Excellence
7 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL Most students of lean know that Toyota gives much of the credit for their manufacturing approach to Henry Ford, and for very good rea…
Management Trumps Culture Every Time
6 July 2010
by BILL WADDELL There is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the BP debacle in the Gulf of Mexico - that management rules - not culture or leader…
The Elite Idiots
29 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL In looking over the landscape for blog fodder I came across an article written by a guy named Paul Krugman in the New York Times that…
Misery Loves Company
25 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL Our intrepid leader is at the G-20 Summit of the world's economic leaders this weekend, and it seems as though he is having a tou…
Hope Isn't A Business Strategy
22 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL This is about as good a lean story as I have ever come across. A guy by the name of Rob Reich runs the maintenance operations taking…
Gotta Get Their Heads Out Of The Buckets
16 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL I once heard a Parker Hannifin controller describe engineers as people who are good with numbers but lacking the personality and soci…
The Fiddler's Tab Comes Due
15 June 2010
by BILL WADDELL "It is an old maxim and a very sound one that he who dances should always pay the fiddler," said Abraham Lincoln, and payin…