I know that some people think that on rare occasions I might be a little cynical and sarcastic, but believe me, I am asking this question in earnest.…

The largest privately owned manufacturing company in the U.S. came together yesterday when Koch announced that it was buying Georgia-Pacific. The folk…

Peter Drucker died yesterday at the age of 95 and American business lost one of its greatest thinkers and strongest supporters. I am sure glowing obit…

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Apparently the manufacturing community should be on a continuous improvement curve, but consultants and Shingo Prize executive directors are exempt. T…

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This is post number 100 for the Evolving Excellence blog, and it is therefore appropriate that we celebrate blogs themselves by creating the second Ca…

The annual Association for Manufacturing Excellence conference was held last week in Boston. Over the past 21 years this conference has grown to be bi…