I just wanted to give Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen credit for this one. He tracked down an article (in Japanese) by Mr. Watanabe, CEO of Toyota…

May was another good month for the Superfactory 20 Index of Lean Manufacturing Companies.  The year-to-date average performance went positive for the…

Evolving Excellence is now configured to be easily read on your mobile device or PDA by using the following URL: http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/mo…

We've picked on Boeing quite a bit over the last few years, all of it obviously deserved.  But it's time to be fair and balanced, and give the…

I've long been a fan of Tim Ferriss and his best-selling book The Four Hour Work Week.  The book describes several methods to minimize and optimiz…

It looks like Boeing's penchant for supply chain convolutions is spreading down through their tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers. Hitco Carbon Composite…

Perhaps it's all in the name, but you have to love a company with the cohones to call themselves Invincible.  Invincible Metal Solutions in this c…

A recent article in the Lake Forester, a small newspaper based north of Chicago, was surprisingly accurate with regards to certain core aspects of lea…