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by BILL WADDELL "Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to firs…

by BILL WADDELL Twenty four years ago I took on my first kaizen event at a Copeland plant in North Carolina.  We didn't know it was to be called…

by BILL WADDELL So much for Al Gore inventing the Internet.  Check this out from 1934: Original: http://idatix.com/manufacturing-leadership/most-inn…

by BILL WADDELL I read an article the other day describing Macy's strategy to blur the lines between stores and distribution centers.  They are k…

by BILL WADDELL In the manufacturing world most understand that excellence - lean - centers on cycle time.  Manufacturers aren't necessarily all…

by BILL WADDELL Mitt Romney last Fall: "'Our productivity equals our income." Barack Obama in response on Wednesday: "... the not…

by BILL WADDELL Valuing Facebook at $100 billion killed the company. While it could have continued to limp along as a privately held company, as a pu…

by BILL WADDELL Here's the way I see lean: This is pretty much the model I use when I am writing about companies or concepts for Evolving excell…