Ron Pereira at Gemba Academy recently had the opportunity to sit down with Masaaki Imai, the fascinating founder of the Kaizen Institute and author of…

By Kevin Meyer So what does a typical city do when commuter trains and buses reach capacity?  Add more capacity of course - unless you're broke.…

by BILL WADDELL As I wrote of GM's obsession with the same wrong issues nearly six years ago, "unless lightning strikes the Ren Center in De…

by BILL WADDELL Thanks to SME for this great, short manufacturing video; and thanks to Jerry Miller for sharing it with me. Hope you all take a few…

by BILL WADDELL I get a lot of email from people urging their product, cause or point of view on me as blog fodder.  99% of those unsolicited emails…

by BILL WADDELL I thought it might be worthwhile to sort out some of the bumbling, blathering nonsense related to manufacturing flowing from the Pres…

By Kevin Meyer Yesterday I came across a video created by McDonald's in the UK that attempts to demonstrate the value of being a McDonald's e…

By Kevin Meyer We've talked about Tesco before - how they are destroying the idea that economies of scale are important and are instead focusing…