I don't plan this stuff - it just happens, but this seems to be airline lean week. Any doubt about how badly the airlines need lean thinking has t…

by BILL WADDELL "Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to firs…

Twenty four years ago I took on my first kaizen event at a Copeland plant in North Carolina. We didn't know it was to be called a 'kaizen even…

I just learned that Dave Hogg, one of my oldest friends and mentors in the lean world, has received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work…

So much for Al Gore inventing the Internet. Check this out from 1934:…

In his piece yesterday on A New Ball Game, Bill actually beat me to the punch a bit on the sordid story of American Apparel. I've been planning an…

I read an article the other day describing Macy's strategy to blur the lines between stores and distribution centers. They are keeping a couple of…

An article on CNN this morning gave me some pause: Fareed Zakaria wondering whether Russia should move its capital from Moscow to Vladivostok - 4,000…