The Best and Worst Practices for Crowdsourcing Innovation
August 8, 2018We’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
February 11, 2020Mary 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
August 2, 2018The 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?
August 2, 2018Before we start chatting about who should be involved in strategy deployment, I think it’s important to point out the difference between...
Hottest Trend in Business? Internally Crowdsourced Innovation
February 22, 2022Crowdsourcing is the practice of engaging a group of substantial size for a common goal such as problem-solving, efficiency or just...
Using Hoshin Kanri to Align & Coordinate Lean Strategy [WEBINAR]
July 27, 2018Also known as “strategy deployment,” Hoshin Kanri aligns an organization’s functions and activities within its strategic objectives. The...
Lean Tools for Healthcare
July 26, 2018The Lean business management approach is used widely in healthcare organizations because cutting waste from health care delivery is not...
An Example Kaizen Event Agenda
July 26, 2018Kaizen events are the optimal approach for solving many challenging and persistent problems within an organization. (That does not mean...
How to Introduce Kaizen to New Employees
July 23, 2018There has been a lot written in this blog and in many other resources about how to launch the Kaizen philosophy within an organization....