Quality Magazine

Strategy Planning and Deployment: A Tool to Achieve Excellence 0
- Quality Magazine, Strategy
- April 7, 2025
Strategy is not about doing the important things but rather the process of choosing and deciding the plan forward. Image Source: Morsa Images / E+ / Getty Images Plus Traditional planning methodologies focus on steering an organization in the direction desired by top management, often referred to as management by objective (MBO). Unfortunately, as we
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The Role of Lean Daily Management in Sustaining a Lean Culture 0
- Daily Management, Quality Magazine
- January 15, 2025
Image Source: Morsa Images / E+ / Getty Images Many companies that experience great success with Lean hold kaizen workshops to rapidly implement Lean tools. It’s no secret, however, that many of these companies find that the improved system quickly reverts back to its non-Lean state. The problem is that Lean is a people-dependent system. All
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The Secrets to Creating an Effective Value Stream Map 0
- Quality Magazine
- December 11, 2024
Business is growing more competitive every day. In order to keep up with customer demand and expectations, companies are having to work faster and be more efficient than ever before. Value stream management is an emerging business process intended to gauge the flow of value into business resources and activities as well as the flow
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Podcast: Why Quality Professionals Should Consider Kaizen 0
- kaizen, Podcast, Quality Magazine
- October 7, 2024
I recently wrote an article for Quality Magazine on Kaizen where I explain why kaizen is a valuable tool that probably not enough companies take advantage of. If you want to be able to look at your process, if you want to uncover what pains you, these are the kinds of things that Kaizen allows you to
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The Kaizen Mindset:10 Steps for Executing a Successful Kaizen 0
- kaizen, Quality Magazine
- September 11, 2024
Production team members discovering opportunities and trying solutions during a Kaizen. Image Source: Tim McMahon An essential element in Lean thinking is Kaizen. Kaizen is the Japanese word for a “good change” (Kai = change, Zen = good) or change for the better. It’s a continuous improvement tool to make work easier, safer, and more productive by
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Obeya – Introducing The Lean War Room Article 0
- A Lean Journey, In the News, Quality, Quality Magazine
- June 10, 2024
Projects are important for generating growth for organizations. Successful projects don’t just happen; they require hard work and collaboration from both project managers and team members to ensure all tasks are completed and goals are met, on time and on budget. However, many projects ultimately fail or are abandoned because the team does not work
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