Are You Too Busy For Incremental Improvement?

Incremental Improvement Works.

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”  ― David Foster Wallace

There are many...

3 Components of an Effective Kaizen Management System

What It Takes for Your Kaizen Management System to Be a Success

Does “Kaizen,” or “good change” happen naturally in an organization? In my...

Creating a Successful Suggestion System

Identify, Act, Resolve, Recognize!

Imagine if your boss stood up at your next company meeting and challenged you to create a suggestion...

Continuous Improvement: A Key Part of a Lean Management System

Continuous Improvement Never Ends

A few years ago I was talking with the CEO of a large US corporation about Lean management. I asked him...

4 Reasons Companies Should Invest in Employee Participation Programs

Harness the Power of Your Crowd

There’s a reason why, out of billions of web pages, Google can almost always bring you the one with the bit...

Good Business Practices are Lean Business Practices

Lean is All Around Us

Think you don’t use Lean practices in your daily life, in your work, in your business? Think again. Lean is all...

Creating a Culture of Collaboration

The Key To Business Success

There is an old English proverb that says “A problem shared is a problem halved.” Nowhere is this more true...

How to use Social Innovation to Solve the Worst Problems

The Role of Employees in Solving Problems

Let’s face it, you’ve got problems. Every organization does. Don’t worry, it’s normal. You...

New Book: "The Idea-Driven Organization"

Employee Participation in a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, authors of the influential 2006 book Ideas...