Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the monthly e-newslette…

by BILL WADDELL Looks like Kevin might have been a bit premature when he gave Toyota credit last week for finally pulling the long overdue andon cord…

by BILL WADDELL Craig Anderson, a regular reader, very knowledgeable lean thinker and correspondent, sent along the link to a video of a Brit by the…

by BILL WADDELL Perhaps the best thing that could happen to manufacturing improvement is the debacle that is unfolding at Toyota.  It will put to res…

by BILL WADDELL A guy by the name of Satya Chakravorty wrote an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal, Where Process Improvement Projects…

By Kevin Meyer Companies love to spend gobs of money going on treasure hunts to find new best practices.  Tours of great companies, workshops by supp…

By Kevin Meyer Last week's post on the health effects of standing, and how sitting long periods can more than offset the benefits of even regular…

By Kevin Meyer A recent article in The Economist by Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz describes how one aspect of leadership has changed in the information age.…