Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
15 Benefits of Standard Work
November 26, 2024Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, once said, “Without Standard Work, there is no Kaizen.” That’s a pretty bold...
11 Reasons to Use Cross-Functional Teams
November 21, 2024Organizations turn to cross-functional teams for a variety of reasons. Almost everyone can agree that this type of collaboration is...
How Lean Healthcare Management Can Elevate Patient Care
October 17, 2024Although the Lean quality improvement methodology was initially developed to improve the quality and productivity of automotive factories,...
How to Promote Continuous Improvement in The Workplace
October 9, 2024Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of Zappos, famously said, “If you get the culture right, most of the other stuff will just take care of itself.”...
What Is Business Transformation? Steps to Get Started
September 26, 2024Business transformation is a crucial journey that strategically revamps an organization's processes, technologies, and business models to...
8 Powerful Operational Excellence Tools and Techniques for Sustained Enterprise Growth
September 10, 2024Achieving operational excellence means skillfully managing organizational processes and resources to deliver top-notch results. It's about...
A Quick Guide to the Basic Ideas of Lean Manufacturing
August 28, 2024Lean manufacturing is a process improvement methodology that started in the Japanese automotive manufacturing sector after World War II....
How Cross-functional Training Maximizes Employee Value
July 30, 2024The traditional siloed approach to business operations where everyone stays in their "lane" is giving way to a more cooperative,...
Essential Operational Excellence Leadership Behaviors
June 28, 2024Operational excellence is a management philosophy that focuses on continuously improving an organization's processes, systems, and...