A Quick Guide to DMAIC for Beginners
December 19, 2017If you are new to continuous improvement or just interested in trying out a new technique, this guide to DMAIC is for you. We’ll explain...
Idea Boards for the Modern Workforce
October 11, 2023Call me crazy, but I think the world’s first idea board was probably painted on a cave. People have an innate ability to process visual...
How Digitizing Your Idea Boards Amplifies their Impact
September 5, 2017If you have (or are considering creating) an idea board to collect employee suggestions for improvement, please take a minute to pat...
7 Unexpected Benefits of Kaizen Events
March 21, 2018Leaders typically deploy Kaizen events when there is a difficult or urgent challenge that needs to be addressed in short order. The obvious...
What You Are Missing if You Don’t Use Standard Work
June 13, 2017When we talk to leaders who haven’t yet implemented Standard Work, our first question is always, “Why?” We get a range of answers including...
Inquiring for Progress: Common Quality Improvement Questions Unveiled
June 5, 2023We’ve noticed a theme to many of the conversations that we’ve been having with clients and at the events we’ve attended lately. Lots of...
Incident Reporting is Only the Beginning
February 27, 2017Have you seen the LifeLock commercial about the bank robbery? A group of robbers comes in with baseball bats and demand that everyone get...
The Top 9 Reasons to Implement CAPA Software
February 6, 2017Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) is an effective improvement technique that helps organizations investigate the root causes of any...
Rapid Improvement Cycles – The Engines of Positive Change
January 25, 2017According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a rapid improvement cycle is a "Quality improvement method that identifies, implements,...