Northern Illinois - my neck of the woods - is supposed to get a foot and a half of snow tomorrow - maybe. With their $5 billion budget and network of…

Many of us have visiting Japan to tour the factories of companies like Toyota in order to learn a little more about lean. But how many of us visit fac…

The President said it was high time the government got reorganized the other night in his State of the Union speech, drawing a few laughs when he poin…

I often talk about how "respect for people" is the oft-forgotten second pillar of lean - and how lean fails when that concept isn't embr…

I was thumbing through some old magazines that had built up in the mayhem of the past month and came across an interesting article in The Economist on…

Tonight Mr Obama will expound on his economic theories that will restore the American economy and put everyone back to work. Word has it that he will…

In all of the years of writing for Evolving Excellence you can count on one hand the books I have recommended as vital for an understanding of lean (a…

Lots of interesting and curious tales this week in the business world ... A great story about Kroger's came out that speaks to the excellence onl…