5 Keys to Effective Idea Management

Businesses are built on ideas. In the beginning, someone has an idea for a new product or service, or a better way of delivering an old...

6 Statistics to Justify Your Investment in Employee Feedback Solutions

We’ve heard from HR professionals, process improvement managers and other business leaders that it is usually pretty easy to get management...

What Types of Businesses Benefit from Continuous Improvement Software?

While it is true that the idea of continuous improvement software emerged from the manufacturing industry and was quickly adopted by the...

Honesty, Integrity, and Respect in a Culture of Continuous Improvement

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Honesty, integrity, and respect should be prerequisites for any leader, but unfortunately, this often...

Be a Shapeshifter – Turn Problems into Opportunities for Improvement

Wikipedia describes shapeshifting this way, “…founded in mythology and folklore (and still prevalent in modern fantasy fiction), … the...

The Suggestion Box - Where Great Ideas Go to Die

We think there’s a reason why the quintessential suggestion box looks like a little coffin with a slit in the top. It’s where suggestions...

Ideas from Employees Pay off Big – Here’s Proof

Most business managers and HR teams know that it is important to seek input and ideas from employees. They’ve deployed suggestions boxes...

Lean Technology: An Oxymoron?

You Don't Have to Choose

In the Lean community, there are many who warn against the use of Lean technology, if not bad-mouthing it...

The Best Way Leaders Support a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Lead By Participation, Not Proclamation.

Ask a manager “would you rather have one idea worth $1M or 1,000 ideas worth $1,000?”, and most...