5 Vital Ingredients for the Continuous Improvement Model
March 25, 2016If you’ve watched even a minute of Top Chef or Chopped, you know that delicious dishes have the perfect balance of the five elements of...
Hoshin Kanri – Frequently Asked Questions
March 22, 2016One of the business management techniques that we often recommend to clients is called Hoshin Kanri. When we mention it to people,...
Tips From the Pros for a Successful Suggestion System Launch
March 21, 2016If your organization has decided to launch a suggestion system to capture employee ideas, congratulations! This is big step on the path to...
5 Essential Features of Toyota Kata Software
March 22, 2016There are two things that really set the business methodology of Toyota Kata apart from the others. First is the focus on the process of...
5 Traits of Continuous Improvement Leaders That YOU Need To Develop
April 17, 2019We’ve written extensively about the importance of viewing continuous improvement as everyone’s job, and why a bottom-up approach to...
Kaizen Software – Your Improvement Scoreboard
October 11, 2023It’s March Madness time, so let’s try a basketball related thought experiment. Imagine playing in or watching a basketball game without a...
5 Ways Change Management Software Accelerates Improvement
March 11, 2016Modern companies face the challenge of delivering results today while creating a path to sustainable growth for tomorrow in a fiercely...
Driverless Cars Are Cool. Driverless Kaizen Events Aren’t.
March 9, 2016Kaizen events are an effective way to tackle an organization’s most pressing and complex problems in short order.
During a Kaizen event,...
When It Comes to Empathy, We Have It Backward.
March 8, 2016I recently attended a mandatory staff training session at one of the health systems in which I work. Billed as a communication class, it...