Scrappy? Not hardly!
8 June 2011
by BILL WADDELL Perhaps the most poorly titled article I have read - ever - is "The Scrappiest Car Manufacturer in America" that appeared i…
The High Price of Locks
6 June 2011
by BILL WADDELL Another in a long line of contentious debates is raging in Washington, this one with a direct bearing on lean manufacturing. The Trad…
What Do You Think?
3 June 2011
by BILL WADDELL What are you thinking about? What do you think the people in your organization are thinking about? What are they actually thinking…
Heroic and Lean at the Same Time
29 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL 364 days a year the government with all of its goofy bureaucracy is an easy target for us lean bloggers. On this day, however, Memor…
This and That
27 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL Who Needs Harvard When They Can Go To Dayton? The University of Dayton has put an accounting professor by the name of Joseph Castell…
When Cost Reduction Is Profit Reduction
25 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL A story in the LA Times the other day discussed "greenwashing" - cloaking something in dubious claims of environmental fri…
More Thad Newth For Thteve Jobth and Fokthconn
22 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL There is nothing humorous about the deaths of 3 people and serious injuries to a dozen or more others in Apple's Foxconn factory…
Catching Up On Things
19 May 2011
by BILL WADDELL Some of the more interesting news items over the last few days ... Globalization the right way People from Brazil, China, Canada,…