Maggie Millard
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How to Have Better Team Huddles
September 25, 2018We recently had a chat with a potential client in a healthcare organization that has been doing daily team huddles for years. She has been...
How Software Enables Lean Leadership
September 25, 2018It’s 2018, and if you haven’t heard, there’s an app for that. We use software to manage almost every aspect of business today from HR to...
How to Develop a Kaizen Management Style
September 11, 2018It is common that when people are first introduced to the concept of Kaizen, they get excited. The ability to implement small, incremental...
9 of Our Favorite Performance Improvement Methods
August 31, 2018We’re in the lucky position to have the opportunity to chat with leaders who are dedicated to organizational and employee performance...
How to Introduce Continuous Improvement Software to Employees
February 26, 2020Effective communication is the most critical element of any continuous improvement software roll out. Whether or not your employees will...
What to Include in Your Kaizen Event Charter
August 21, 2018We recently had a conversation with a client who has been through a few too many failed Kaizen events. The team was unorganized, not well...
Who Should Participate in Kaizen?
August 14, 2018One of the questions that we get asked most often by leadership teams trying to adopt the Kaizen approach to business that made Toyota so...
The Best and Worst Practices for Crowdsourcing Innovation
August 8, 2018We’ve written before about why internally crowdsourcing innovation is such a hot trend in business. (Actually, we don’t think it’s a trend...
Hottest Trend in Business? Internally Crowdsourced Innovation
February 22, 2022Crowdsourcing is the practice of engaging a group of substantial size for a common goal such as problem-solving, efficiency or just...