We often hear of traditional businesses being segregated into binary classes... chiefs and indians, queens and drones, conductor and musicians... you…

On December 27th the world was shocked by the news of the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto.  A powerful woman leader, controversial in t…

German manufacturer MAN has been dipping its toes into the wonderful world of lean manufacturing. At Munich, Germany-based MAN Nutzfahrzeuge—the 13-p…

The next annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence will be held in Toronto this October 20-24.  Each of the last several confe…

Those of you that watched the Orange Bowl last night may have seen a rather amusing commercial where a guy walks into a copy store with a stack of bla…

You'll recall that late last year we had a poll of "best lean public company."  After several hundred votes the list grew to 54 companie…

2007 has been a fun year at the Evolving Excellence blog.  We've confronted, tackled, and complemented excellence and incompetence at organization…

Two years ago I wrote about how lean manufacturing concepts can be applied to the home, and suggested some New Year's resolutions.  From 5S to inv…