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...

Hottest Trend in Business? Internally Crowdsourced Innovation

Crowdsourcing 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]

Also known as “strategy deployment,” Hoshin Kanri aligns an organization’s functions and activities within its strategic objectives. The...

Lean Tools for Healthcare

The Lean business management approach is used widely in healthcare organizations because cutting waste from health care delivery is not...

An Example Kaizen Event Agenda

Kaizen events are the optimal approach for solving many challenging and persistent problems within an organization. (That does not mean...