Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
Can Hippo Leadership Please Be the Next Trend in Business Management?
November 7, 2016Many of you read my post last week about a Stanford Business article regarding problems inherent to top-down teams and how to solve them....
Critical Questions to Ask after Your Next Rapid Improvement Event
October 18, 2016We’ve written before about how to lay out the road map for your next rapid improvement or Kaizen event. Careful planning is essential to an...
How Strategy Execution Software Solves 3 C-Level Problems
January 24, 2017We don’t find it surprising at all that a survey of Global 5000 CEOs undertaken by The Conference Board revealed that “Excellence in...
6 Reasons to Invest in a Kaizen Management System
September 28, 2016We frequently get the opportunity to chat with organizations that are considering rolling out a Kaizen management system. Some are in the...
The 4 Essential Functions of CAPA Software
September 6, 2016Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) is an important part of the quality management approach of many organizations. It focuses on the...
What to Look for When Choosing a Digital Kaizen Board
August 31, 2016If you are considering implementing a digital Kaizen board to support your organization’s improvement efforts, congratulations. It’s a...
Don’t Leave Your Visual Management Abilities in the Car
October 11, 2023The human brain processes visual images much more easily than it can text. That’s because processing visual information is innate. A...
7 Simple Tips for Building Cross Functional Teams
August 3, 2016Last year, research by the Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional, meaning that “They fail on...
What Leaders Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations
October 11, 2023High reliability organizations are those that succeed despite significant risk, and massive consequences of failure, in industries ranging...

