Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson, MD from KaiNexus answer questions in this video webinar: How can you implement Lean without scaring people with change and Japanese concepts and language? When …
There is a strong trend in organizations these days to apply improvement tools and techniques that originated on the manufacturing floor to other parts of the organization and other industries …
When you started on your improvement journey, you may not realize it, but you actually already made a technology decision. I bet you probably managed the work in spreadsheets and …
Communication and organization are the keys to the success of Hoshin Kanri because managing long-term strategy, short-term goals, and daily improvement activities can be a huge challenge, especially if you …
What are the traits you look for when you hire new employees? If you are like most people, you look for employees that are intelligent, capable, problem solvers who take …
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is one of those things like a snow cone. It is something that pretty much everyone can agree is awesome. Who would not want it? Yet …
We do not think that companies should deploy process improvement software unless they have a clearly defined vision of what success looks like. Every company is trying to achieve something …
It looks simple at first, and a quick Google search will tell you what you need to get started – a way to capture ideas, a way to collaborate, leadership …
The beginning of summer must be a good time for Kaizen events because we have been getting a lot of questions about them lately. We thought we would take a …
Taiichi Ohno also said that Kaizen is about changing the way things are. If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you cannot do Kaizen. So, …
