Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
6 Steps to Improvement in Manufacturing
June 9, 2021One of the most important responsibilities of managers in manufacturing environments is to contain costs. The most obvious cost to...
Improvement Culture: 4 Signs of Trouble
October 14, 2020Modern leaders are fortunate to have a host of proven continuous improvement tools like DMAIC, Standard Work, kanban, Hoshin Kanri, and...
21 Tweetable Kaizen Quotes to Inspire
September 24, 2020Did you now that the number of people actively using Twitter is over 270 million? Over 50 million people have joined the social media...
What it Takes to Receive the Leapfrog Top Hospital Award
September 8, 2020The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers of healthcare concerned with quality...
Study Finds that COVID-19 is Harming Workers' Mental Health
July 14, 2020If you find that you don't have the energy for activities that you once enjoyed or you are overreacting to small irritants, you are not...
When Zero is the Only Acceptable Goal
June 23, 2020The Utah Department of Transportation has an audacious goal. Zero fatalities. According to its website, “Zero Fatalities is all about...
Continuous Improvement & Employee Empowerment at The Standard Group
June 5, 2020The Standard Group is a print management and marketing logistics company based in Reading, Pennsylvania. They specialize in everything from...
CI Reporting Woes? How to Measure What Matters
May 28, 2020Ever wonder why factories, warehouses, grocery stores, and other similar businesses usually have a sign that says something like,...
10 Leadership Mistakes that Undermine Improvement Efforts
May 12, 2020Leaders that we speak with get very excited about the idea of creating an improvement engine within their organizations. Who doesn’t want a...