Greg Jacobson
Recent Posts
Considering Change Management Software? Don’t Overlook Reporting.
April 10, 2018If you are in the market for change management software, we’d like to help. One of the most frequent questions we get asked is what to look...
Why is Hoshin Kanri so Valuable?
March 30, 2018The practice of Hoshin Kanri, also called Policy Deployment or Strategy deployment, is about the alignment of individual goals and...
How Software Amplifies the Impact of Kaizen
April 18, 2018In 1986, Masaaki Imai founded the Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) to help western companies to introduce the concepts, systems,...
How Hoshin Kanri Attacks 9 Tough Improvement Challenges
March 8, 2018Hoshin Kanri is a management technique designed to steer an organization towards its most important long-term goals without sacrificing the...
Rolling Out Hoshin Kanri in 2018? Here Are Our Top Tips.
March 8, 2018Hoshin Kanri is a powerful strategic planning tool because it helps align the organization top to bottom around breakthrough objectives. It...
The Impact of Prescription Drug Pricing on the Quality of Healthcare
February 11, 2020You know how, when you’re at the doctor and they’re filling out a prescription for you, they ask which pharmacy you use? The implication is...
How A3 Software Supports Problem Solving
April 17, 2019The A3 approach is a brilliantly simple problem-solving technique. It is based on the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Adjust) improvement cycle and is...
Top 8 Reasons that CQI Initiatives Fail
August 29, 2017Continuous quality improvement (CQI) isn’t a subject that inspires a lot of debate. We’ve yet to find a business leader or even a...
No Time for Gemba Walks? Spend More Time On Gemba Walks.
August 10, 2017In talking with business leaders over the years, we’ve learned that Gemba Walks are a bit like eating better and getting more exercise....