By Kevin Meyer Over the last several weeks many of us have watched episodes of Undercover Boss.  The premise is that a CEO has the brilliant insight,…

By Kevin Meyer A year or so ago a reader asked if I'd ever heard of lean applied to the legal profession.  I had briefly, but did not have any sp…

Evolving Excellence is pleased to host the latest edition of the Management Improvement Carnival.  The following are some of the best posts from the l…

Who are you? What organization are you with? What are your current Lean-Oriented activities?   My name is Pete Lambie and I work as a consultant for…

by BILL WADDELL This is a tale of two companies with very divergent views of their role and responsibility in the world:  Rio Tinto and Google. Let&…

by BILL WADDELL The following is an actual chart from a recent One Day Assessment, showing the distribution of one particular manufacturer's cost…

By Kevin Meyer Over the last several weeks I've been contemplating how things have changed in my still relatively short lifetime... how the word…

By Kevin Meyer It has started even sooner than I expected.  In this new era of supposed transparency and deliberation - at least that's what was…