Are Your Continuous Improvement Goals Extensive Enough?
April 13, 2016One thing that we are often asked to help leaders and managers do is to articulate the value of continuous improvement in order to get...
4 Fundamental Responsibilities of Lean Leaders
February 16, 2017The Lean approach to business management is popular because it provides a useful structure and a language for the pursuit of continuous...
5 Vital Ingredients for the Continuous Improvement Model
March 25, 2016If you’ve watched even a minute of Top Chef or Chopped, you know that delicious dishes have the perfect balance of the five elements of...
5 Essential Features of Toyota Kata Software
March 22, 2016There are two things that really set the business methodology of Toyota Kata apart from the others. First is the focus on the process of...
5 Traits of Continuous Improvement Leaders That YOU Need To Develop
April 17, 2019We’ve written extensively about the importance of viewing continuous improvement as everyone’s job, and why a bottom-up approach to...
Kaizen Software – Your Improvement Scoreboard
October 11, 2023It’s March Madness time, so let’s try a basketball related thought experiment. Imagine playing in or watching a basketball game without a...
5 Ways Change Management Software Accelerates Improvement
March 11, 2016Modern companies face the challenge of delivering results today while creating a path to sustainable growth for tomorrow in a fiercely...
When It Comes to Empathy, We Have It Backward.
March 8, 2016I recently attended a mandatory staff training session at one of the health systems in which I work. Billed as a communication class, it...
Conventional Wisdom that a Lean Organization Should Actually Ignore
March 2, 2016Conventional wisdom consists of ideas that are so widely held that they are believed to be true without much critical analysis. The problem...

