The Lean Manufacturing Cheat Sheet
February 22, 2023I created dozens of cheat sheets during my high school and college career. Don’t worry; I didn’t use them to cheat on the test. I found...
8 Ways Virtual Huddle Boards Accelerate Improvement
April 29, 2019Huddle boards are a popular visual management technique that is often used in conjunction with a daily huddle meeting. Teams gather around...
What Happens When You Take a Kaizen Approach to Improvement?
February 11, 2020In my opinion, Kaizen is one of the most brilliantly simple, yet powerful business philosophies there is. Translated from Japanese, it...
Synchronize Strategy, Tactics, and Operations with Hoshin Kanri
April 24, 2019Hoshin Kanri is a strategic planning approach that is often used to improve organizations. Although it is not as commonly used as some...
When Daily Huddles Go Astray
April 23, 2019When I decided to write this post, I thought it would be interesting to see what others have written about the practice of daily huddle...
How Hoshin Planning Aligns with PDSA
April 19, 2019We get a lot of questions from leaders about which continuous improvement tools and techniques they should use. Is DMAIC better than PDSA?...
The Truth About Electronic Suggestion Boxes
April 17, 2019There are lies people tell for selfish or malicious reasons. They come up in business from time to time, but far more common are fairytales...
Master Improvement with Kata Software
April 16, 2019"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
- Bruce Lee
Kata...
Why Some Hoshin Kanri Implementations Go Wrong
April 11, 2019Hoshin Kanri is a strategy deployment approach that is popular with organizations using the Lean or Six Sigma business methodology and...
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