by BILL WADDELL In a story that rings a bit of The Emperor's New Clothes, a young girl from Missouri by the name of Kate Hodges is taking her 3.5…

By Kevin Meyer A couple months ago I wrote a piece titled Listen to the Naysayers that prompted considerable public and especially private reaction.…

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…