Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
Strength in Numbers: Improving from the Bottom-Up [Webinar Preview]
July 26, 2017I was so excited to do this podcast interview with Mark Graban about tomorrow's webinar, I just had to share it with you all here on the...
From the Model A to the Model 3: The Cost of Failing to Improve
October 11, 2023The definition of opportunity cost is "a benefit that a person could have received, but gave up, to take another course of action. Stated...
How Lean Coaching is Different for Bottom-Up Improvement
July 18, 2017A sustainable culture of continuous improvement needs five things: bottom-up improvement, top-down improvement, strategy deployment,...
The Trick to Implementing Efficient Bottom-Up Improvement
July 6, 2017Organizations all over the world, in almost every industry, are turning to continuous improvement software to solve their most challenging...
5 Unexpected Benefits of Improving from the Bottom Up
June 26, 2017What are the traits you look for when you hire new employees? If you’re like most people, you’re looking for employees that are...
Deciding to Take the Leap: A Look at Improvement Software
June 22, 2017Deciding when to move from a paper system of managing continuous improvement to a digital system is tough. You know that you're not as...
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Snow Cones
June 21, 2017Preface: I’m in northern California today. Summer doesn’t even officially begin for three days and it is 107 degrees! So, the fact that I...
The 5 Things You Can't Spread Improvement Without
June 16, 2017When I was a kid, I used to slip out the back door in the mornings, whisk across the dewy yard, and sit in our tomato patch as the birds...
The Need for Improvement Software to Measure Improvement KPIs
September 21, 2020We've written time and time again about the value of monitoring and measuring the impact, activity, and engagement of people in an...

