Just a couple of brief announcements ... As if  my daily rantings and ramblings in Evolving Excellence weren't enough, the Lean Executive blog is…

American manufacturing has thrived for a mighty long time by standing on the shoulders of some incredible civil engineering. Not a whole lot of people…

While the mass producers who are agog about innovation are right in line with the hare in the old 'Tortoise and the Hare' parable, lean manufa…

Bob Lutz and Mark Fields have talked loud and often about the urgent need to create exciting, innovative products.  GM will be saved when Lutz comes u…

I learned innovation's proper perspective when I had the privilege of translating Hiroyuki Hirano's book, JIT Is Flow, from the crude Jangales…

I imagine just about everyone has heard of the guy in Philadelphia who put the sign in his cheesesteak joint saying, "This is America. When order…

As you are reading this, at least six academics and a dozen consultants are probably writing up case studies and white papers on the body shop's &…

There's a guy named Giarrizzo running a chain of body shops in Cleveland who is taking them nationwide and hopes to patent lean manufacturing - he…