Bill Waddell

I figure the last day of the year is a good time to look back at the highs and lows - see who demonstrated real leadership in manufacturing and raised…

AJ Sweat is a long time reader who often sends me interesting, and occasionally outrageous blog fodder - I sincerely appreciate it AJ! - and he recent…

While GM and Chrysler have wallowed around in government muck and mire, Toyota has struggled to stop their steady slide toward becoming the next GM, a…

by BILL WADDELL Since I wrote The Lean Ratio the other day the comments and opinions have come in fast and furiously.  The concept of what is value a…

The title is the Latin fundamental, "First do no harm" which is drilled into the heads of just about everyone going into medicine. It seems…

I get lots of questions about metrics. We seem to be a culture obsessed with measuring things, and the idiotic notion that we can't manage anythin…

Taiichi Ohno said, when asked what the Toyota Production System was all about, "All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the…

"How vain, without the merit, is the name," wrote Homer. He was writing about Hector - trashing him for claiming epic accomplishments, witho…