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...
Best Practices for Standard Work Documentation
July 5, 2018In his book, Standardized Work with TWI: Eliminating Human Errors in Production and Service Processes, Bartosz Misiurek writes, “Standard...
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...
9 Answers to the Most Common Questions About Gemba Walks
January 12, 2018Maybe it is because it is a brand-new year, or perhaps it is the cold weather, but lately, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about the ...

