by BILL WADDELL When organizations get far enough along the lean journey they inevitably ask the obvious question:  Why are we doing all of this cros…

By Kevin Meyer A couple weeks ago I told you about how Singapore is finding a solution to transit system capacity problems that doesn't require v…

by BILL WADDELL Man of Honor "I am Akio Toyoda of Toyota Motor Corporation. I would first like to state that I love cars as much as anyone, and…

by BILL WADDELL An old Russian/German guy by the name of Wassily Leontief once said of economists, "We move from more or less plausible but real…

By Kevin Meyer Last week brought us two stories of two companies mentioning their respective lean manufacturing efforts.  I thought I'd show you…

By Kevin Meyer Today's one of those days when a question poised by one Wall Street Journal article is answered by another.  First we have the new…

by BILL WADDELL It is easy to view a foreign place as one big homogeneous blob if you've never been there, but that is rarely accurate, and the…

by BILL WADDELL Would you buy a cell phone from these guys? These cats are The Elegants - the original One Hit Wonders.  In 1958 their song, "L…