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

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 wh…

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

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 skimmin…

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-…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website. The new content is featured in the free monthly e-news…

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 a…

On my too-frequent flights to New York recently, I started reading Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma.  It's a trip up and down…