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    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…

    Optima February 19, 2021
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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…

    Optima February 8, 2021
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    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…

    Optima February 1, 2021
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    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…

    Optima January 25, 2021
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    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…

    Optima January 10, 2021
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    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…

    Optima January 5, 2021
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    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…

    Optima December 7, 2020
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    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…

    Optima November 30, 2020
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    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…

    Optima November 17, 2020
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    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…
    Optima November 9, 2020
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    Optima’s Leaders Roundtable group provides Executive CI Leaders an opportunity to meet other CI Leaders and learn from one another. Members of each Roundtable group are from non-competing organizations who have been on the Continuous Improvement journey and are willing to share their successes and their struggles along the way. Discussions help members to determine strengths and weaknesses in their organization’s CI journey and to gauge where their organization is at on the CI journey. Members not only get the chance to share their knowledge and experience, but also get to “sharpen the saw” by benefiting from others’ knowledge and experience. Roundtable groups meet quarterly.

    • Help CI leaders of multi-site operations share best practices
    • Develop strategies for driving improvement initiatives in a global organization from a staff position
    • Uncover best practices for building a multi-site deployment team
    • Discover strategies to ensure the right CI resources have a seat at the table
    • Build a network of other companies to share learnings outside of CI (HR, Product Development, Supply Chain, etc.)

    The Paradigm President’s Group in MN and the Paradigm Group in ND were designed to foster strong relationships between our members and to unlock the value of real-world best practices. We meet monthly for ½ day at a member site and this is an opportunity for each member to benchmark the best practices (and the not so best practices) of other companies. Members, in utmost confidentiality, discuss their successes and failures and ask their fellow members for advice and analysis.

    • A “think-tank” where everyone means business and meets to discuss leadership, strategic issues, key initiatives, major problems, how to engage and develop people and more
    • Address the issues that will help to grow your business and accelerate the rate of transformation
    • Learn from the mistakes of others
    • Experience real-life case studies on how to improve a business
    • Help one another to create profitable organizations
    • Best practice sharing events in Wisconsin and Minnesota
    • Member-driven events in Wisconsin and Minnesota
    • Special Concierge service to help ensure your CI success
    • Tours, feedback sessions and roundtable discussions
    • Personalized Concierge service
    • Participate in special interest groups – HR and Safety
    • Free and member-discounted learning events
    • Special invitations to industry leaders speaking and workshop events
    • Explore what others are doing with CI
    • Experience a collaborative learning environment
    • Solve problems and share perspectives
    • Discuss best practices and implementation ideas
    • Share continuous improvement tools and techniques
    • Sustain continuous improvement initiatives

    • Gain a ‘new set of eyes’ in looking at your organization
    • Experience best practices in action
    • Become more observant in your operation
    • Discover how to engage your team in continuous improvement culture
    • Receive priceless open and honest feedback from peer members
    • Discuss and share CI do’s and don’ts
    • Gain invaluable perspectives and expand your knowledge
    • Participate in personalized tours of other facilities

    • Build relationships with other continuous improvement leaders
    • Expand your knowledge through networking with others on a CI journey
    • Get CI ‘how-to’ tips from those with implementation experience