5 Prerequisites for Solid Continuous Process Improvement

I recently joined a few of my family members on a trip to Disneyland. My 9-year-old niece from Utah was among the group. She’d never been...

A Mission to Partner with Patients to Improve Safety

If you’ve been following our blog, watching our webinars (which are available on demand), or listening to our podcasts for a while, you’ll...

Keys to a Successful Lean Construction Software Implementation

There are many compelling reasons to invest in Lean construction software. Companies that do so are able to reduce costs, improve safety,...

Five Changes Healthcare Leaders Make to Develop an Improvement Culture

One of the foremost figures in the adoption of lean principles in healthcare, John Toussaint, MD, is an executive coach, author and...

Obeya in Action: The Process and Benefits of Obeya

If you’ve never heard of an “obeya,” you’ll want to check out our VP of Improvement & Innovation Mark Graban interviewing Dr. Michael...

The 8 Wastes of Lean are Shockingly Common. Here are Some Examples.

Eliminating waste is at the heart of the Lean business management philosophy. So much so, that there are eight defined types of waste.

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How to Leverage Lean for Long-Term Success

With a title like How to Leverage Lean for Long-term Success (Under Short-term Pressures), it’s no surprise that our recent webinar was...

The 5 Principles of Hoshin Kanri

I like to think about Hoshin Kanri, also known as strategy deployment, as the ability of an organization to walk and chew gum at the same...

Top 8 Reasons that CQI Initiatives Fail

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) isn’t a subject that inspires a lot of debate. We’ve yet to find a business leader or even a...