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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…

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 a 'kaizen even…

So much for Al Gore inventing the Internet. Check this out from 1934:…

I read an article the other day describing Macy's strategy to blur the lines between stores and distribution centers. They are keeping a couple of…

In the manufacturing world most understand that excellence - lean - centers on cycle time. Manufacturers aren't necessarily all doing a good job w…

Mitt Romney last Fall: "'Our productivity equals our income." Barack Obama in response on Wednesday: "... the notion was that some…

Valuing Facebook at $100 billion killed the company. While it could have continued to limp along as a privately held company, as a publicly traded com…

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 excellence, doing my co…