Over the past couple weeks our friend Mark at the Lean Blog has been tackling a subject I've astutely avoided... Michael Moore's latest rant,…

The other day Mathew May mentions an article found in Strategy and Development (free registration). This article was titled Win-Win Sourcing by Jackso…

Toyota calls it “lowering the water level.” Imagine a value stream or a production process as a river. Reducing the inventory in the process – “lower…

The automotive parts industry has not exactly had an easy time over the last decade or so. Many of those companies chased the alluring volume from wha…

Today's Wall Street Journal describes how Lexus is trying to improve its market share in Japan. Somewhat unusually, Toyota launched the Lexus bran…

I'm no CFO, but I still subscribe to CFO magazine to get an ongoing flavor for what's happening in the corporate finance world.  After ski…

Monday's Wall Street Journal had an editorial titled The Drive-a-Toyota Act that has taken me a couple days to digest. It is an interesting mish-m…

I'd like to welcome Craig Woll to the Evolving Excellence blog as one of our authors. You may recall his first post a few weeks ago, Power Laws an…