A Little Prayer Might Help
11 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL If you are the praying type a lot of good manufacturing folks in northern Japan can use all the help you can give. The earthquake ea…
Manufacturing Matters ... Obviously
10 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL Reader Jim T. provided us with a link to some news on CNN about Johnson & Johnson, whose never-ending string of manufacturing deb…
Lean's Fork In The Road
8 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL Way back when I was doing the research for Rebirth of American Industry I came across the Henry Ford quote; "Profit is the inevi…
Professional Control Freaks
7 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL In Simple Excellence Adam Zak and I wrote, "The simplest, leanest and best managed a company will ever be is in its infancy whe…
The Shock Would Kill Them
2 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL When asked about the death of his closest friend, attorney Joseph Choate, Mark Twain said that Choate had tried telling the truth for…
Wrapping Their Heads Around Value
1 March 2011
by BILL WADDELL As everyone pursuing the lean path has known for as along as they have been on the path, the heart of it all is eliminating waste - a…
Making or Breaking Culture
21 February 2011
by BILL WADDELL In one of the best performing companies I have worked with it was within a very few hours of my arrival for my first visit that I hea…
I'll Take Waste For $400, Alex
17 February 2011
by BILL WADDELL The geeks are giddy at the news of Watson - IBM's multi-million dollar entrant in Jeopardy - thoroughly trouncing a couple of sma…