4 Big Improvement Ideas to Set the Stage for Success in 2020
November 11, 2019It seems like every year goes by faster than the last. I keep making plans to work on my summer tan, and suddenly, it's November. The...
Kaizen and the Art of Kintsugi: Redefining Perfection
August 21, 2019As regular readers of this blog know, many of the ideas and practices that guide the modern continuous improvement movement have their...
More Brilliantly Simple Continuous Improvement Techniques
July 4, 2019A while back, we wrote about some continuous quality improvement techniques that we love because they are easy but powerful. One of the...
3 Thought Provoking Business Process Improvement Examples
May 24, 2019We talk a lot about the mechanics of business process improvement and the technology to support it on this blog. Today, we thought we’d...
6 Tips for Crowdsourcing Innovation Ideas
May 23, 2019When we ask people about innovation, they usually leap to radical breakthroughs like self-driving cars, alternative energy sources, or...
8 Ways Virtual Huddle Boards Accelerate Improvement
April 29, 2019Huddle boards are a popular visual management technique that is often used in conjunction with a daily huddle meeting. Teams gather around...
When Daily Huddles Go Astray
April 23, 2019When I decided to write this post, I thought it would be interesting to see what others have written about the practice of daily huddle...
Is it Time to Rethink Your Daily Huddle Board?
April 23, 2018Daily huddle meetings accompanied by the visual management tool of a huddle board are a favorite improvement management technique in...
The Essential CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) Glossary
December 20, 2017CQI, like many other disciplines, has a language all its own. Many of the terms are acronyms, others are Japanese words retained from...