Best Practices for Effective Kaizen Management

Kaizen management can give your company a significant edge over your competitors. It involves lean operations and continuous improvement,...

What is Operational Excellence? | Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Success

Operational excellence is a management philosophy that continuously improves an organization's processes, efficiency, and effectiveness. It...

How Cross-functional Training Maximizes Employee Value

The traditional siloed approach to business operations where everyone stays in their "lane" is giving way to a more cooperative,...

Breaking Down the Optimal Operational Excellence Model and Framework for Business Transformation

"Operational excellence begins with having the right strategy, but it's realized through relentless focus on execution and continuous...

Designing an Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS) for Manufacturing Leaders

Operational Excellence (OpEx) is a strategic approach thatfocuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes to...

Top Strategies to Achieve Operational Excellence 

Operational excellence as a strategic objective focuses on continuously improving internal processes and systems to achieve superior...

PDSA Quality Improvement: A Scientific Method of Change

Dr. W. Edwards Deming is considered by many to be the father of modern quality improvement. Among other important insights into how...

What is Kanban? A Quick Guide to Visualized Improvement

There are dozens of tools and techniques used by organizations to support their continuous improvement efforts. The most successful...

12 Characteristics of a Lean Organization

The renowned football coach and philosopher Vince Lombardi once said, “Perfection is unattainable, but if we chase perfection, we catch...