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...
End the Blame Game with the 5 Whys
January 26, 2016Most of the organizations we get involved with are quick to embrace the idea and tools of continuous improvement. Employees generally react...
Why Does the Base of the Improvement Pyramid Get Ignored So Often?
January 25, 2016A customer emailed us recently, asking about an improvement pyramid diagram showing different levels of continuous improvement. It's...
The One Crucial Thing Your Kaizen Events Are Probably Missing
January 21, 2016The thing I want to convince you to try with your next Kaizen Event makes a lot of sense, so I find it pretty weird that more organizations...
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...
What is Visual Management? It's Not Just Visual… It's Management, Too
October 11, 2023If you learn even just a little bit about the Lean methodology, you'll hear (hopefully) about a concept called "visual management." It's a...
Why It's So Hard to Change Minds to Spread Improvement
February 11, 2020Frustrated that you can't expand the improvement culture beyond an initial small group?
Having trouble convincing senior leadership to...
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