The Best and Worst Practices for Crowdsourcing Innovation
August 8, 2018We’ve written before about why internally crowdsourcing innovation is such a hot trend in business. (Actually, we don’t think it’s a trend...
Best Practices for Standard Work Documentation
July 5, 2018In his book, Standardized Work with TWI: Eliminating Human Errors in Production and Service Processes, Bartosz Misiurek writes, “Standard...
10 Ways to Build a Culture that Supports CQI
May 30, 2018The dictionary defines corporate culture as, “The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution...
Why You Need to At Least Consider a Digital Kanban Board
May 22, 2018The Kanban technique started in the late 1940’s as Toyota looked to rethink its approach to manufacturing. The object was to reduce waste,...
How to Share Standard Work
March 22, 2018Standard Work is one of the bedrock elements of continuous improvement. In fact, Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System,...
8 Sure Fire Ways to Ruin a Kaizen Event
January 10, 2018Kaizen events, also known as Rapid Improvement Events, are an effective way to tackle many difficult problems in short order. They can also...
The Use of Control Charts for Non-Manufacturing Activities
April 17, 2019Many of the continuous improvement tools and techniques that we write about in this blog originated in the manufacturing industry. This...
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...
5 Prerequisites for Solid Continuous Process Improvement
September 26, 2017I recently joined a few of my family members on a trip to Disneyland. My 9-year-old niece from Utah was among the group. She’d never been...
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