Kevin Meyer

By Kevin Meyer It's been almost exactly five years since Bill and I took the Shingo Prize to task (to put it gently) for some rather bizarre sele…

By Kevin Meyer Just to make sure we don't get lulled into a false state of bucolic complacency with so many companies "re-shoring" back…

By Kevin Meyer In this edition of our irregular Fun with Statistics series we take a look at an oft-unforeseen pitfall of analysis: inadvertently fra…

By Kevin Meyer We've mentioned the reshoring phenomena several times lately.  Many companies are finally waking up to the realities of total cost…

Bob Emiliani is having another book contest. His books contain an abundance of practical new information on Lean leadership and the history of Lean ma…

By Kevin Meyer Half a year ago Bill made an interesting prediction on the future of Volkswagen that made several of us wonder what he might have been…

By Kevin Meyer Regular readers know that a pet peeve of mine is the lack of true root cause analysis and long-term perspective by presumably well-int…

By Kevin Meyer A couple of news items lately prompted me to take a look at my undesired investment, as a taxpayer, in General Motors.  With a couple…