Bill Waddell

A recent article from Inside Bay Area waxes eloquently about the Toyota Production System and its application at NUMMI, especially with regard to work…

The cheese war is escalating into a battle royal of style versus substance. Wisconsin is still ahead of California in total cheese production, but the…

A remarkable article about Toyota appeared in the CNN site yesterday that exposes Toyota's Achilles heel - the ignorance of racism.  It also raise…

Fortunately the other outstanding lean bloggers have taken up the torch, sparing me from having to wear the 'curmudgeon mantle', allowing me t…

Senior management leadership is almost universally identified by the assorted experts as a critical ingredient for a company's success on the road…

Rather than sell things based on value, the marketing and finance types that have hijacked many of America's manufacturers love to find a way to s…

I hope everyone has had a chance to read the last few post Mike Wroblewski has put up over at Get Boondoggle, along with the comments he has received,…

While I would like to think that all of my blog posts are important to someone, the fact is that most of you cannot find any direct link between your…