What to Include in Your Kaizen Event Charter

We recently had a conversation with a client who has been through a few too many failed Kaizen events. The team was unorganized, not well...

The Best Alternative to a Kanban Board in Excel

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used applications on the planet. I know exactly why. It’s amazingly flexible, most people know...

Who Should Participate in Kaizen?

One of the questions that we get asked most often by leadership teams trying to adopt the Kaizen approach to business that made Toyota so...

What to Include on Your Gemba Walk Agenda

Gemba walks are a favorite Lean management technique, but they can be used by any leader to become more connected with the people and...

Webinar Preview: A Chat with Oscar Roche About TWI & Kata

I'm really excited to be hosting a webinar that's coming up on Tuesday, August 14th at 1 PM ET:

TWI and Kata: Skill Patterns to Develop a...

The Best and Worst Practices for Crowdsourcing Innovation

We’ve written before about why internally crowdsourcing innovation is such a hot trend in business. (Actually, we don’t think it’s a trend...

Engaging Leaders & the Baldrige Framework to Advance Excellence

Mary Greeley Medical Center is a 220-bed acute care hospital in Ames, Iowa. It’s also a leading facility in continuous improvement.

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7 Reasons to Consider Kanban Software

The Kanban visual management technique has been around since the late 1940’s when Toyota introduced it in its manufacturing plants. They...

Who Should be Involved in Strategy Deployment?

Before we start chatting about who should be involved in strategy deployment, I think it’s important to point out the difference between...