Continuous Improvement Goals Suggestions for 2023
June 22, 2023In 2020, we laid out some suggested continuous improvement resolutions. If the pandemic thwarted your plans and best intentions, give...
What it Takes to Receive the Leapfrog Top Hospital Award
September 8, 2020The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers of healthcare concerned with quality...
The Improvement Project Version of 20 Questions
June 3, 2020I'm sure you've all played the game 20 questions. The goal of the traditional parlor game is to uncover an object chosen by one player by...
10 Special Considerations for Remote Kaizen Events
April 22, 2020Many leaders are finding themselves faced with the task of managing a 100% remote team for the first time. The challenge is amplified by...
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?...
Beyond the Problem – Bonus Benefits of Kaizen Events
October 21, 2019Kaizen events, sometimes called rapid improvement events, are an effective way of solving difficult challenges within organizations. A team...
More Brilliantly Simple Continuous Improvement Techniques
July 4, 2019A while back, we wrote about some continuous quality improvement techniques that we love because they are easy but powerful. One of the...
Improve DMAIC Process Results with Improvement Software
June 11, 2019DMAIC is a widely used structured process improvement technique developed at Motorola in the 1980s. It is popular among organizations that...
3 Thought Provoking Business Process Improvement Examples
May 24, 2019We talk a lot about the mechanics of business process improvement and the technology to support it on this blog. Today, we thought we’d...