Bill Waddell

I don't plan this stuff - it just happens, but this seems to be airline lean week. Any doubt about how badly the airlines need lean thinking has t…

by BILL WADDELL "Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to firs…

Twenty four years ago I took on my first kaizen event at a Copeland plant in North Carolina. We didn't know it was to be called a 'kaizen even…

So much for Al Gore inventing the Internet. Check this out from 1934:…

I read an article the other day describing Macy's strategy to blur the lines between stores and distribution centers. They are keeping a couple of…

In the manufacturing world most understand that excellence - lean - centers on cycle time. Manufacturers aren't necessarily all doing a good job w…

Mitt Romney last Fall: "'Our productivity equals our income." Barack Obama in response on Wednesday: "... the notion was that some…

Valuing Facebook at $100 billion killed the company. While it could have continued to limp along as a privately held company, as a publicly traded com…