Top 10 Tips for Onboarding Remote Employees
October 6, 2020Many employers put off hiring over the summer, hoping that the COVID-19 situation would improve, and office life would return to normal...
Twitter’s “Blame Processes, Not People” Moment
September 28, 2020With the blistering speed of this summer’s news cycle, we can’t blame you if you’ve already forgotten about the single largest security...
Continuous Improvement in Financial Services
September 15, 2020When people think of structured continuous improvement methodologies like Lean and Six Sigma, they usually associate it with manufacturing....
Ten Mid-Year CI Questions to Ask Every Employee
June 30, 2020It's hard to believe that the first half of 2020 is in the books. Just kidding. I don't blame you if you feel like there's been 10 years...
The Interviewer’s Guide to Hiring for a Kaizen Culture
June 16, 2020Organizations that practice kaizen work hard to maintain a culture centered around continuous improvement. The best defense against push...
Continuous Quality Improvement is Hard to Sustain. We Know Why.
February 25, 2020Has your organization started a quality improvement program with great fanfare and a ton of enthusiasm only to see it peter out over time?...
Put Your Suggestion Box Online to Help Avoid Becoming The Office?
February 11, 2020If the internet is any clue, I’m not the only one who was prompted by its 10th anniversary to re-watch a bunch of old episodes of The...
5 Easy Improvement Ideas to Get Ready for 2020
December 27, 2019I’m not sure about you, but at this time of the year, I don’t feel like tackling any major new projects. There seem to be a ton of...
Leadership Techniques for Overcoming Resistance to Change
August 25, 2022People like to joke that the only things that never change are death and taxes, but that's just not true. If it were, you would never hear...