Evolving Excellence is honored to host this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival.  For past carnivals go here. * Standard Work and the Fol…

By Kevin Meyer A couple years ago I told you about a rather unique manufacturing company in Florida where no one had job titles. That is, except for…

By Kevin Meyer It's been a while since we updated you on Joseph Abboud, the suit manufacturing that is leveraging lean manufacturing to keep its…

By Kevin Meyer Mary and Tom Poppendieck have speaking on the application of lean manufacturing methods to software and IT development for many years.…

by BILL WADDELL By the time this uploads to Evolving Excellence I will be in the air on my way to Seattle, to a factory I have never seen before, for…

by BILL WADDELL Just how disconnected some people are from the the notion of true leadership is made plain by the fact that the government has seen t…

Greg Gardner's article in the Detroit Free Press the other day had some hidden insight into why the NUMMI experiment did nothing for GM... and why…

The Sunday Parade Magazine newspaper insert, of all rags, had a couple tidbits to ponder this morning.  Sandwiched between silly celebrity gossip and…