The Lean LEGO Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Story
June 22, 2023LEGO bricks have been an iconic toy for decades. I grew up playing with them and I know that my children will grow up playing with them as...
The Role of Continuous Improvement in Environmental Responsibility
July 21, 2016Reducing environmental waste and shrinking a company’s carbon footprint are not easy tasks. Nonetheless, environmental improvements are...
A Call For a Fundamental Change to Our Medical Culture
August 29, 2026Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to John Hopkins Researchers. In 1999, the Institute...
Is Your Visual Management Board Doomed to Fail?
October 5, 2016We recently came across a great article in IndustryWeek by Dan Markovitz, president of Markovitz Consulting, a faculty member at the Lean...
Mining for Ideas: Continuous Improvement at Kinross
July 6, 2016Generally, when you think of companies using continuous improvement, you mostly jump to manufacturing companies and healthcare...
How Software Helps Conquer the 7 Wastes of Lean
December 4, 2017The Lean approach to business management is founded on the principle that anything that doesn’t add value to the customer should be...
What to Look for When Evaluating Value Stream Mapping Software
July 7, 2016Value stream mapping is a technique that involves analyzing and improving the steps in any process that takes a service or product from the...
The Next Generation of Huddle Boards
July 21, 2016I remember when my family got our first VCR. I was extremely excited about the prospect of recording MacGyver so I could watch it anytime I...
If Your Improvement Software Doesn't Do This, Look for a New Solution
June 16, 2016The best continuous improvement software will be able to capture more opportunities, implement more improvements, measure those...
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