Bill Waddell

I know that some people think that on rare occasions I might be a little cynical and sarcastic, but believe me, I am asking this question in earnest.…

The largest privately owned manufacturing company in the U.S. came together yesterday when Koch announced that it was buying Georgia-Pacific.  The fol…

Peter Drucker died yesterday at the age of 95 and American business lost one of its greatest thinkers and strongest supporters.  I am sure glowing obi…

Apparently the manufacturing community should be on a continuous improvement curve, but consultants and Shingo Prize executive directors are exempt.…

Kevin's post, "Outsourcing Communication Affects Quality" laid bare the folly expecting quality results from a value stream made up of p…

If I were a Hollywood celebrity, or the subject matter of the Superfactory blog were just politics or other unimportant social drivel, the contents of…

With surprisingly little noise a watershed event in the 'leaning' of American manufacturing happened this week that everyone of us needs to be…

Some of the best lessons to be learned from history result from what you can't find.  In particular, if you plow through everything Shigeo Shingo…