Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
Electronic Suggestion Boxes... An Exercise in Futility?
February 3, 2016Dr. Ethan Burris, a Professor at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, has spent many years researching employee engagement,...
6 Big Limitations of Huddle Boards
July 21, 2016We applaud any steps that an organization makes to ensure that every day involves efforts related to continuous improvement. One approach...
Purpose, People and Process – The Foundation of a Lean Organization
July 21, 2016The Lean business process management methodology is a way of planning and measuring the long-term success of an organization, focused on...
How Improvement Software Supports Standard Work
January 27, 2016Standard work is an essential starting point for improvement. Processes that are poorly documented and inconsistently executed are...
Common Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Improvement Culture
January 19, 2016It doesn’t take a lot of deep thinking to conclude that a culture of continuous improvement is good for business. Who says, “Improvement...
See How This Customer Accelerated Improvement with KaiNexus [Video]
April 11, 2017At the 2015 KaiNexus User Conference, one of our customers told us this story about his grandfather:
"It’s a family owned company - I’m...
A Life Hack Born of Continuous Improvement
February 11, 2020In my line of work, I'm lucky enough to get to connect with tons of clever people from all areas of the improvement space. One such contact...
What Millennials Think of Your Electronic Suggestion Box
January 8, 2016Do you ever wish that you could read the minds of your employees? This would be an especially great trick when trying to understand the...
A Short List of Easy and Effective Ways to Spread Innovation
July 21, 2016Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, said, “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t...