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The Role of Catchball in Strategic Planning
September 20, 2016We’ve written before about how the Lean technique of Catchball is a valuable improvement tool. The process of passing ideas back and forth...
Taking Your First Gemba Walk? Here are 10 Tips.
September 12, 2016If you are getting ready to take your first Gemba walk, good for you! Gemba walks are an effective way to identify opportunities for...
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...
The Case for Digital Huddle Boards
August 29, 2016Huddle boards are a popular way to gather teams together on a daily basis to talk about improvement. Typically, the boards contain slips of...
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...
5 Situations that Call for a Kaizen Event
August 19, 2016The best way to implement and sustain improvement within an organization is to practice daily Kaizen. This means capturing and executing...
Everything You Want to Know about Hoshin Kanri, but Are Afraid to Ask
August 15, 2016When I first started thinking and writing about all of the tools and techniques that organizations use to embrace continuous improvement...
Top 5 Questions About Standard Work
August 30, 2016When we talk to leaders and managers about continuous improvement, one subject that is always important is that of Standard Work. We find...
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