The Secret to Finding Internal Errors in Your Office
What is an error? External errors are mistakes that get outside our business walls and become visible to vendors and customers. Internal errors are problems…
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Supercharge Leadership Teams with Continuous Improvement
Are you engaged, disengaged, or actively disengaged? It’s an assessment that an organization must make if they are interested in culture change or a culture…
Leading World Class
To successfully transform your organization into a high-performance enterprise, the one quality your organization will need more than any other is leadership. It is the…
The 4 Kaizen Events
Many organizations practice kaizen (meaning change for the better) and that is good, especially when kaizen is practiced daily. But sometimes the scale of problems…
Value Stream Mapping the Office
In the last few years, the idea of using Lean for office processes has become more and more prevalent. Service, not-for-profits, health care, and even…
Sustaining Continuous Improvement
I am often asked how to maintain the improvements and gains from continuous improvement efforts. There are many factors, but here are the three most…
Five Qualities of Successful Lean Leaders
Lean Leaders find success through understanding the relationships between lean tools, organizational leadership, and organizational culture. When they add their Lean skills into the mix, leaders…
What’s so special about 5S?
The 5S process is just about cleaning up and getting things neat and orderly, right? So, what’s so special about that? How can something so…
Strategies for Solid Employee Engagement
Does it seem like some of your teammates are just showing up for work (sometimes not even that)? If so, you are not alone. A…
Inventory Analysis and Control for Continuous Improvement
Inventory has an impact on cash flow. Aged and obsolete inventory are a drain on company resources. The companies that manage their inventories well h…
