by BILL WADDELL None of the contributors - either bloggers or commenters - to Evolving Excellence, and no serious lean student anywhere would condone…

by BILL WADDELL In Philly They're Partying Like It's 1979 Yesterday Irish reader Simon Cunnane fired up his DeLorean, cranked it up to 88 mi…

By Kevin Meyer My post about a week ago that took the Shingo Prize to task for awarding a version of the Prize to Callaway Golf, which has since chas…

By Kevin Meyer Over the years I've often told the story of American Apparel.  A company that manufactures trendy but still basic clothing - think…

by BILL WADDELL Thanks to Joel Lown from the U of Tennessee for this article from Knoxvillebiz.com about a local company called Bailey Hydropower tha…

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…