How Software Amplifies the Impact of Kaizen
April 18, 2018In 1986, Masaaki Imai founded the Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) to help western companies to introduce the concepts, systems,...
How to Convince Your Boss to Invest in Kaizen Software
March 22, 2017Selling up can be tough. If you believe that your organization could benefit from Kaizen software, but your boss (or whoever has to approve...
How to Increase Your Odds of Sustaining Innovations
January 26, 2017When I sat down to write about sustaining innovations, the word that popped into my mind was “entropy.” While entropy is a scientific term...
How Workflow Software Accelerates Improvement
April 27, 2017Once organizations realize the value of daily continuous improvement and learn to leverage employee ideas for innovation, they often turn...
Top 10 Reasons to Invest in Lean Software in 2017
January 26, 2017One of the many things we love about this time of year is the opportunity to reflect back on what we’ve accomplished (or survived) over the...
A Quick Guide to Innovation Management Software
November 29, 2016As organizations seek to bring more structure to efforts to improve both products and processes, many are turning to innovation management...
6 Reasons to Invest in a Kaizen Management System
September 28, 2016We frequently get the opportunity to chat with organizations that are considering rolling out a Kaizen management system. Some are in the...
Eliminate 5 Barriers to Improvement with Kaizen Software
May 13, 2016Here’s an interesting question. What keeps improvement from happening organically? Why is an improvement culture something that we have to...
A Short List of Easy and Effective Ways to Spread Innovation
July 21, 2016Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, said, “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t...