According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a rapid improvement cycle is a, “Quality improvement method that identifies, implements and measures changes made to improve a process or a system.” …
How to Manage Your Improvement Metrics More Efficiently and Effectively In this webinar, you will learn: Some of the common mistakes people make when looking at performance metrics and the …
Kaizen events are an effective way to implement significant improvements in short order. They are used to tackle all sorts of issues from workplace organization, to process optimization and everything …
Strategy Deployment is a hot topic in continuous improvement circles these days. We’re delighted to see that because effective strategy deployment can make the difference between reaching the goals of …
A post by Jeff Roussel, read by Mark Graban Every time we walk into a facility and see a Kaizen board, we are reminded about the excitement and sense of …
When I sat down to write about sustaining innovations, the word that popped into my mind was “entropy.” While entropy is a scientific term related to the degradation of the …
A common mistake companies make when rolling out a new culture of continuous improvement is to fail to provide leadership training to the people leading it. When you’re responsible for …
Once organizations realize the value of daily continuous improvement and learn to leverage employee ideas for innovation, they often turn their focus on how to accelerate the pace of improvement. …
There’s an interesting thing about the definition of the word culture – it shares a root with the word “cultivate,” which means, “to foster the growth of; to improve by …
Earlier in the day, at one of her company’s regular monthly meetings, she decided to offer a $100 bill to the first employee who could name all four of the …
