Bill Waddell

By Bill Waddell Seven and a half years after scribbling my first post on Evolving Excellence I'm moving - whether I'm moving on, moving up or…

I recently received an email from a guy challenging the legitimacy of organizing into value streams and lean accounting. The linchpin of his argument:…

All over the country - all over the world, for that matter - managers are confronting year end surprises from annual inventory counts. Strenuous effor…

The horrible shootings in Connecticut have set off another round of debates over the fundamental goals of a business - pitting financial gain against…

The good folks over at Bloomberg/Business Week wrote about Cisco's failure to make good on their big investment in LinkSys. Cisco makes big, compl…

I have always thought that you could tell an awful lot about a company's values, culture and leadership by what happens in the weeks running up to…

Interesting article on the Wall Street Journal's site about the challenges facing Marie Robinson - the Toys R Us head of their supply chain. In a…

I'm sure the European explorers of old were startled to find the Americas squarely in the middle of the path heading west from Europe to Asia. The…