Companies

You'll recall that late last year we had a poll of "best lean public company."  After several hundred votes the list grew to 54 companie…

A couple years ago Boeing decided to sell the Wichita/Tulsa division of its Commercial Airplanes Group to Toronto-based Onex for $900 million, which r…

Last week we commented in considerable detail on the supply chain woes at Boeing.  Mike Bair, former 787 Dreamliner boss, had some rather damning comm…

How many layers of management does your organization have? Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella announced today that he plans a general rule of a maximum of s…

A year ago we began to question the rationale of the supply chain convolution Boeing was creating for the 787 Dreamliner, and we've chronicled the…

Lean manufacturing types consider "waiting" one of the seven deadly wastes.  But could it be a social value that also delivers positive fina…

We're currently running three polls at Evolving Excellence, so I thought I'd take a weekend moment to update readers on the current results.…

I’ve chosen to address a fairly morbid topic today: Death. Death is inevitable. As of yet, modern science has not created a cure for death. There are…