by BILL WADDELL There is a big Walmart distribution center not far from where I live in rural Illinois.  You can see it here. You can also see that…

By Kevin Meyer Over the past few months we've told you many stories of companies returning to North America as they realize that the reality of o…

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…