What if Your Team Isn't Finding New Opportunities for Improvement?
February 11, 2020The topic of this blog is a question that we get quite often. Teams will implement a continuous improvement program with much enthusiasm...
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...
3 Noteworthy Continuous Improvement Books from 2019
December 17, 2019Every year, the collective wisdom about how to lead organizations and engage in continuous improvement continues to grow. Many of the core...
4 Big Improvement Ideas to Set the Stage for Success in 2020
November 11, 2019It seems like every year goes by faster than the last. I keep making plans to work on my summer tan, and suddenly, it's November. The...
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...
Easy-to-Try Process Improvement Examples
July 10, 2019When people talk about business process improvement, the conversation can get very far into the weeds quickly. There are several...
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...