How to Share Standard Work
March 22, 2018Standard Work is one of the bedrock elements of continuous improvement. In fact, Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System,...
10 Things a Digital Kaizen Board Can Do That a Paper One Can’t
February 11, 2020Kaizen boards are a fantastic addition to any improvement program. They arrange information visually so that a quick glance provides useful...
Lean Software Is Not Just for Manufacturing Companies
February 16, 2018When people ask me about my job and I explain that my company offers Lean software, people who know anything about the Lean business...
3 Arguments Against Kaizen Tracking in Spreadsheets
February 2, 2018If you are still tracking your Kaizen activities in spreadsheets, I get it. Spreadsheets are a tempting approach because you already have...
The What and Why of CAPA Software
January 26, 2018Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) is an essential ingredient in many quality management strategies. The approach relies on the...
How Software Amplifies the Impact of Kaizen
April 18, 2018In 1986, Masaaki Imai founded the Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) to help western companies to introduce the concepts, systems,...
The 2017 The Lean Management System Blog Roundup
December 29, 2017As 2017 comes quickly to a close, we took a minute to look back over some of the blogs we’ve posted on one of our favorite topics, the Lean...
From Paper to Software: The Evolution of A3 Problem Solving
April 17, 2019Before we dig into the topic of A3 problem solving and software, here’s a little peek into how the sausage is made for this blog. One of...
You Can Improve Without Kaizen Software. But Why Would You Want To?
February 11, 2020We are occasionally asked if it is possible to implement Kaizen without using
The answer is yes.
It is possible to adopt a...