By Kevin Meyer As one of the partners in Gemba Academy, online education is something I'm a bit interested in.  Of course the 230+ lean training…

by BILL WADDELL There is an interesting (but not surprising) post at the Economist YouGov on the results of a poll describing the priorities American…

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…