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There’s a good bit of literature out there that reports on the high failure rates of large initiatives like a lean enterprise implementation. Do...

A friend of mine works for a company that’s always been in the consumer goods arena. It hopes to expand its B2B portfolio. The company is...

Being better able to cope with small–and large–crises is the point of lean. I remember years ago seeing a Toyota presentation at an automotive...

I visited a company a few weeks ago that asks all of their employees to do a green belt project. It’s not mandatory, but completion of a project...

On June 24, 1980, NBC News released a 90-minute white paper titled “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” It looked closely at a growing productivity gap...

A recent article by Sam Walker in the Wall Street Journal argues that better managers are the key to delivering better results. Walker cites...

Despite the widespread fear, and more than enough reports, proclaiming that robots will be taking over the factory floor, it seems that time has...