Greg Jacobson
Recent Posts
How Playing Catchball Develops Trust in Your Improvement Culture
March 31, 2016Steven Covey once wrote, “Trust is the glue of life. It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational...
Hoshin Kanri – Frequently Asked Questions
March 22, 2016One of the business management techniques that we often recommend to clients is called Hoshin Kanri. When we mention it to people,...
Driverless Cars Are Cool. Driverless Kaizen Events Aren’t.
March 9, 2016Kaizen events are an effective way to tackle an organization’s most pressing and complex problems in short order.
During a Kaizen event,...
Keep Your Organization on the Rails with Hoshin Kanri Software
October 11, 2023]Hoshin Kanri (also known as Hoshin Planning) is a Lean management principal that involves moving an organization toward long-term,...
Balanced Scorecard Software Contributes to Organizational Alignment
February 11, 2020The Balanced scorecard is a structure for implementing and managing strategy at all levels of an organization. It seeks to link objectives,...
The 5 Biggest Hoshin Kanri Software Blunders
January 5, 2016Hoshin Kanri, or "strategy deployment," is a formal Lean method that is used to get everybody pointed in the right direction. Hoshin means...
Continuous Improvement Management Advice from 6 Fortune Cookies
October 11, 2023Let me just start by saying that my friends at Chinatown make some of the best Chinese food in Austin. If you can get there for Dim Sum...
A Gemba Walk with Yoda: What Can We Learn?
October 11, 2023Star Wars: The Force Awakens has sold more advance tickets than any movie in history, and it's not close. We’re not going to lie – we’re as...