Countdown To American Manufacturing Week
28 May 2010
127 days - 18 weeks - from now kicks off American Manufacturing Week. The week of October 2 -9 is when we celebrate the critical contribution manufact…
Freight Is The Tail - Not the Dog
26 May 2010
Economy of scale is great when you've got it. The problem comes when you try to create it out of thin air. That tunnel visioned pursuit of economi…
The Next and Final Lean Frontier
24 May 2010
The one group that has been allowed to opt out of the lean transformation has been Sales & Marketing - and that is about to end. We have lean man…
You Go Girl!
17 May 2010
by BILL WADDELL In a story that rings a bit of The Emperor's New Clothes, a young girl from Missouri by the name of Kate Hodges is taking her 3.5…
Deja Vu All Over Again
13 May 2010
The responses to my recent posts concerning GE, as well as my overflowing email inbox, have caused me to realize that many Evolving Excellence readers…
Fiddling While Manufacturing Burns
10 May 2010
When I wrote about GE's very late discovery of lean yesterday, a few comments came in and a few emails hit my inbox defending them, but not very s…
Lean As The Last Resort
10 May 2010
In a story that is nothing short of flabbergasting, GE has discovered kaizen. After meteorically rising and falling as the best managed company in th…
Rationalizing Mediocrity
6 May 2010
One lesson of many I have learned since I started down the consulting trail years ago is that when the management team of a client company is committe…