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by BILL WADDELL While GM and Chrysler have wallowed around in government muck and mire, Toyota has struggled to stop their steady slide toward becomi…

by BILL WADDELL Since I wrote The Lean Ratio the other day the comments and opinions have come in fast and furiously.  The concept of what is value a…

by BILL WADDELL The title is the Latin fundamental, "First do no harm" which is drilled into the heads of just about everyone going into me…

by BILL WADDELL I get lots of questions about metrics.  We seem to be a culture obsessed with measuring things, and the idiotic notion that we can…

by BILL WADDELL Taiichi Ohno said, when asked what the Toyota Production System was all about, "All we are doing is looking at the time line, fr…

by BILL WADDELL "How vain, without the merit, is the name," wrote Homer.  He was writing about Hector - trashing him for claiming epic acco…

by BILL WADDELL As you are reading this I am in the Land Down Under for the first time - I have been to China and Europe more times than I care to re…

by BILL WADDELL The big money people around the world are in a full blown panic over the financial implosion in Dubai.  The state owned bank there sa…