By Bob Emiliani This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

The responses to my recent posts concerning GE, as well as my overflowing email inbox, have caused me to realize that many Evolving Excellence readers…

When I wrote about GE's very late discovery of lean yesterday, a few comments came in and a few emails hit my inbox defending them, but not very s…

In a story that is nothing short of flabbergasting, GE has discovered kaizen. After meteorically rising and falling as the best managed company in th…

As regular readers know, I'm usually not a big fan of the Harvard Business Review, but recently there have been a couple of intriguing articles. M…

In this edition of our occasional "5 Questions" series we meet fellow lean blogger Tim McMahon. ------- 1. Who are you, what organization…

A common statistic from those that believe health care in the U.S. could be "better" is infant mortality, where in many comparisons the U.S.…

One lesson of many I have learned since I started down the consulting trail years ago is that when the management team of a client company is committe…