By Kevin Meyer Probably the biggest hurdle for ops guys when they transition into general management roles is learning about sales, marketing, and es…

by BILL WADDELL In an interesting article from Bloomberg Businessweek, an investment outfit called Monomoy Capital Partners' kaizen hit team appr…

by BILL WADDELL I have been quite remiss in not writing about Karl Wadensten in all my years of writing for Evolving Excellence.  You can't truly…

By Kevin Meyer It started off well.  I had high hopes.  An article in the April 21st The Economist (wow... reading the future!) on manufacturing in t…

by BILL WADDELL There is no big surprise that a couple of academics would write an article in 2010 reporting that extensive research had led them to…

By Kevin Meyer So it's that time of the year again, and I'm sitting down to write a nice big check to the IRS.  For the most part I'm ok…

By Kevin Meyer Over the last several years I've become fascinated with learning systems inside organizations.  I've also found that the best…

by BILL WADDELL Things are starting to churn in China at a rate that should have American companies reaching into the files and pulling out the conti…