4 Common Myths About Standard Work

Have you heard the one about the engineer whose wife asks him to pick up a loaf of bread and, if they have eggs, get a dozen? They did have...

Continuous Improvement Software vs. Excel

There's an old saying that goes, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I firmly believe that Microsoft Excel is the...

Continuous Improvement Metrics You Should Care About

Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer at Ikea said, “You should measure things you care about. If you’re not measuring, you don’t care...

Got Problems? Get A3.

There’s a reason that it’s almost impossible to talk about continuous improvement without talking about Toyota Motor Corp. They not only...

How to Host a Pre-Mortem Examination and Keep Your Projects Alive

Have you ever had a project fail miserably, only to find out - too late - that there were people on your team who predicted exactly what...

6 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Achieve Employee Performance Improvement

When I was growing up, my grandma frequently quoted the old adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It didn’t make much...

5 Ways Whole Foods is Doing Right by Process Improvement

Rapid Continuous Improvement: What's the Rush?

“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition,...

Give Me Your Malcontents: Secrets to Innovation at Pixar

I’m always on the lookout for stories about innovative companies, but it’s not often that I’m floored by what I find; innovative companies...