The first statement in yesterday's Wall Street Journal article summarized it well: Toyota Motor Corp.'s incoming president, Akio Toyoda, has…

Layoffs are rampant these days, but even so the negative consequences of this recession are taking shape differently than in the past. So far. Ther…

Several readers have asked for more information on some of the lean manufacturing and business transformation thought leaders that we occasionally ref…

Yesterday at 5pm GM and Chrysler submitted their turnaround plans required as a result of accepting a partial bailout (oh, sorry, "loans") f…

It's always a pleasure to see an article make it's own point... especially when it is contradictory to the premise of the article itself. Take…

So there I was, minding my own business while fueling up the car, when I happened to notice the tattoo on the leg of the guy across from me. He was ga…

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

Oprah Winfrey has appeared in this blog two times in the past, once in relation to my mother in-law and a second time when announcing Craig Woll joini…