Basic Excellence

Last summer I learned a valuable lesson from Hoseus Executive Director of the Center for Quality People and Organizations (CQPO). I was reminded of it…

I was at the Lean Enterprise Institute's Transformation Summit in Orlando last week and had my world rocked by Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Ba…

Today is a momentus day, a day that has created fundamental change in how I work, a day that finally arrived after years of growing frustration and ag…

We occasionally have the unfortunate duty to report on companies that have met their demise.  Often they haven't even tried lean and therefore are…

Here's a treat for Valentine's... a peek inside the Jelly Belly factory.  Several of us have visited that factory near Napa Valley in Californ…

This morning I came across a story that immediately raised my hackles since it was titled Lean and Mean.  Obviously linking lean manufacturing methods…

Regular readers know that I often liken regulation to a balloon... you constrain it in one place and it will pop out in some other, usually unexpected…

The next annual conference of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence will be held in Toronto this October 20-24.  Each of the last several confe…