By Kevin Meyer It's been almost exactly five years since Bill and I took the Shingo Prize to task (to put it gently) for some rather bizarre sele…

By Kevin Meyer Just to make sure we don't get lulled into a false state of bucolic complacency with so many companies "re-shoring" back…

by BILL WADDELL Ever since I started doing the One Day Assessments about a year ago I have been getting hit with people asking how I can possibly eva…

by BILL WADDELL A little over two years ago the British Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham, said: "We must…

by BILL WADDELL I came across this story of a Who's Who of world class offshore outsourcers - GE who trashed over 100,000 manufacturing jobs in t…

By Kevin Meyer In this edition of our irregular Fun with Statistics series we take a look at an oft-unforeseen pitfall of analysis: inadvertently fra…

By Kevin Meyer We've mentioned the reshoring phenomena several times lately.  Many companies are finally waking up to the realities of total cost…

Bob Emiliani is having another book contest. His books contain an abundance of practical new information on Lean leadership and the history of Lean ma…