Sparty On !!!
6 April 2009
My original idea was to look up the lean manufacturing content that both Michigan State and the University of North Carolina offer their business scho…
A Plague On Both Your Houses
3 April 2009
by BILL WADDELL On April 26, 1995, a plane flying over the Cincinnati Reds opening day baseball game against the Chicago Cubs at Riverfront Stadium t…
And On And On We Go
2 April 2009
by BILL WADDELL For those who haven't dug into lean deeply enough to understand how accounting is the real problem, and Lean Accounting is an abs…
Pop Goes China
31 March 2009
by BILL WADDELL It may have passed under your radar in the global economic hubub, but Chinese manufacturing is in the tank and sinking deeper. While…
And They Say Crime Doesn't Pay
30 March 2009
by BILL WADDELL Bank of America got $25 billion last Fall, then another $20 billion in January, plus a guarantee against losses of $118 billion, and…
Cheatin' With MATI
26 March 2009
by BILL WADDELL I thought I'd give you a break from all of the grand philosophical ranting and actually write about something practical. Not to…
Walmart - The Lean Enforcer
24 March 2009
by BILL WADDELL I need to start off with a profound apology to Walmart. In my prior blogging life I trashed them pretty good for driving American ma…
Harvard, Toyota, and the Rest of the Story
23 March 2009
by BILL WADDELL The piece I wrote last week concerning the elite Eastern colleges and their misguided stranglehold on the American economy raised a b…