Jeff Roussel
Recent Posts
How The 5 Whys Can Help You to Set Better Goals
June 22, 2023We’ve talked before about how the technique of the 5 Whys can be useful for root cause identification, but did you know it is also an...
“What is Kaizen?” & 5 Other Continuous Improvement Questions Answered
December 1, 2015When someone first gets involved in continuous improvement, I bet it feels a bit like I’d feel if I went to a convention for...
Catchball: An Essential Practice for Flat Organizations
November 24, 2015A flat organizational structure with few or no levels of middle management can be extremely conducive to innovation and improvement....
Incremental Improvement and the Average Joe
October 11, 2023Imagine that on New Year’s Day, Average Joe decides he needs to get healthier. All he needs to do is: quit smoking, stop drinking, run 3...
You Might Need a Kaizen Event If ….
November 9, 2015While we believe that Kaizen events are an extremely effective improvement tool, we are reluctant to say too much about them without a word...
Incremental Improvement: Not Just for the Factory Floor.
September 28, 2015If you do a bit of reading about improvement methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, or Toyota Kata, you might come...
Make Your Next Kaizen Event a Hole-in-One
September 23, 2015Anyone who plays a little golf can attest to the fact that what you do with the club before and after hitting the ball is every bit as...
The Lowdown on Standard Work
October 10, 2018Standard work is an important concept for any organization that is interested in embracing continuous improvement. It is relatively...
How Catchball is (a bit) Like Parenting
September 9, 2015When my daughter was in elementary school, every weekday morning, I would drive her to the daycare center located on the site of the...

