Maggie Millard
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What Are the Essential Tools and Strategies for Optimizing Continuous Quality Improvement?
July 31, 2025Every organization that embarks on a journey toward continuous quality improvement is unique. Leaders in every industry, from healthcare to...
How to Create and Implement a Process Improvement Plan | KaiNexus
December 10, 2024We get the chance to chat with managers and leaders who are faced with a wide variety of business challenges. One of the most common is the...
How Does Standard Work Drive Continuous Improvement in Organizations?
September 2, 2025Standard Work serves as the foundation for all continuous improvement efforts by establishing consistent, documented processes that create...
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,...
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,...

