The Lean Manufacturing Cheat Sheet
February 22, 2023I created dozens of cheat sheets during my high school and college career. Don’t worry; I didn’t use them to cheat on the test. I found...
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...
What Changes When an Organization Implements a Lean Management System?
April 2, 2019We talk to people who are interested in investing in software to support their continuous improvement efforts every day. Some of them are...
An 11 Step Gemba Walk Template for Executive Leaders
July 10, 2025“We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the...
What Other Industries Have Learned from Lean Manufacturing
April 1, 2019Lean manufacturing is a business methodology that is based on tools and techniques implemented at Toyota in their post-WWII efforts to...
21 Questions to Help You Apply the Principles of Lean Management
February 20, 2019We’ve written before about how the Lean management approach is prevalent in almost every industry. That’s because its twin pillars of...
How Digital Idea Boards Accelerate Innovation
October 16, 2018We’ve written before about the reasons that traditional suggestion boxes rarely result in lasting positive change. The biggest problem is...
How to Have Better Team Huddles
September 25, 2018We recently had a chat with a potential client in a healthcare organization that has been doing daily team huddles for years. She has been...
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