When Daily Huddles Go Astray

When 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?

We 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

“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

Lean 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

We’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

We’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

We 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

In 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?

Daily huddle meetings accompanied by the visual management tool of a huddle board are a favorite improvement management technique in...