Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
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...
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...
A Simple Kaizen Event Roadmap
July 28, 2016We’ve written before about the fact that the success of a Kaizen event depends on what happens before, during, and after, with each phase...

