A good friend of mine, Dan Peters, sent me a link to one of the many articles emerging in the last 24 hours on Toyota’s 11 day shutdown of its domesti…

The featured article on Superfactory in January is a piece by one of the heavyweights of the lean movement, Richard Schonberger, titled The Skinny on…

Obama says he's going to scrutinize the federal budget line by line.  Good luck with that.  Although I applaud his desire to cut wasteful spending…

Most of us have heard about Twitter by now... that social networking phenom based around people posting short messages about themselves and what they&…

This week we visit the Audi A3 factory in Ingolstadt.  Compare this to the BMW factory we visited several weeks ago, especially the WIP inventory leve…

Examples of Excellence is a weekly feature showcasing examples of operational excellence.  If you have an example you'd like to share, please emai…

Yes, it's been a while since I've reported on the performance of the Superfactory 20... the twenty lean company stocks we decided to track a y…

Happy New Year from Evolving Excellence!  Best wishes for a peaceful, prosperous, and healthy 2009.  What will you accomplish this year?  While thinki…