A New Critical Japanese Lean Term: oushikuso
1 February 2010
by BILL WADDELL Perhaps the best thing that could happen to manufacturing improvement is the debacle that is unfolding at Toyota. It will put to res…
Git Lean Little Buckaroos
1 February 2010
by BILL WADDELL A guy by the name of Satya Chakravorty wrote an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal, Where Process Improvement Projects…
Excellence Because of and In Spite of Leadership
21 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL Folks from two outstanding companies are getting together today in Georgia ... and they make for very strange bedfellows, indeed. Ch…
Diamonds Are Forever ... So Is Excellence
20 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL I don't want to be critical all the time - really I am not an inherently negative person. But in order to write the blog, as wel…
Ah, The Refreshing Winds of Discontent
20 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL As I have written before, the massive blunder of Obama and the Democrats was to delude themselves into thinking the people had voted…
Lean Is Great, But Cronyism is Better
14 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL Companies like Pella turn themselves upside down to become as lean as any manufacturer in the world; and Andersen Window is not far b…
The Weakest Link In The Chain
14 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL If transportation and logistics were not such a vital link in the manufacturing supply chain I would write this post about the sad st…
What Are We Trying To Do Here?
12 January 2010
by BILL WADDELL I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to achieve excellence - for some impossible to achieve mediocrity - until the lea…