Greg Jacobson
Recent Posts
PDSA Quality Improvement: A Scientific Method of Change
June 22, 2023Dr. W. Edwards Deming is considered by many to be the father of modern quality improvement. Among other important insights into how...
Do You Need PPM or Continuous Improvement Software?
May 10, 2022There are several technology solutions designed to help companies accelerate improvement initiatives and support business process...
Lean Management System: Principles and Software Tools
May 3, 2022Organizations have adopted the Lean methodology worldwide to improve work processes, reduce waste, and achieve overall performance...
The Advantages and Challenges of Kanban Board Software
February 1, 2022If you have read this blog before or poked around our website a bit, you know that our continuous improvement software solution includes...
Back to Basics - 6 Principles of Lean Healthcare
April 22, 2021We spend a lot of time and effort on this blog digging into the details of how to start, spread, and sustain a Lean culture. We think it is...
Key Objectives and Activities for Each Step of DMAIC
April 14, 2021DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) is a data-driven, structured, customer-centric problem-solving methodology. Each phase...
Mistakes Were Made: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
January 31, 2022On January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank owned by the Purity Brewing Company filed...
Quality Improvement in Residency Programs
October 12, 2020I received an interesting call a few weeks back from Bahnsen Miller, MD. Bahnsen is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of...
How to Build Kaizen into Employee Onboarding
September 17, 2020Much of the information published about establishing a culture of Kaizen is written for leaders who are introducing the concept to their...