Ford bets the farm.

i think Womack went to ford and told them how to turn their operations around…?
http://www.hpmconsortium.com/newsAll.asp <- good read
edit:
also from womack…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/02/AR2005120201377.html

go to lean.org and read some of the E-letters.
the copy/paste did not work…