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With each new year, there comes a time to sit back and reflect on the past to see what wisdom (i.e., lessons learned) we can take forward to create a better future. In 2012, Kaufman Global ventured around the states, across the borders of Canada and Mexico, and …Read More >

Business leaders are often criticized for their tendency to keep looking “in the rear view mirror,” but is this always a bad thing? In life there are frequent occasions when one can learn from events of the past to augment future outcomes.  Where Continuous Improvement (CI) activities are …Read More >

Talent Wars | You identify a critical resource need. A requisition is prepared and submitted. The recruiting and hiring process begins. Perhaps six weeks later — if all goes well — your offer for employment is accepted and you have a new employee! Meanwhile, tasks for the new …Read More >

Guard against consuming all your improvement resources purely to launch your transformation with a faultless comparison.

Case for Benchmarks | Seeking valid comparison targets to apply to your performance transformation can be important for a couple of reasons. First, it offers initiative leadership the moral authority to urge comparable …Read More >

Today’s worldwide economic landscape is pushing management to achieve higher output, better quality, and increased market share using less labor, money and inventory. They are being forced to “earn the future” while working under some very intense restraints. Sound familiar? This very topic is the focus the International …Read More >

Metrics are such an important element of continuous improvement. Wait…Metrics might be the most important element of continuous improvement. Why? Because continuous improvement by definition is the measurement of improvement — and if you aren’t measuring, how will the organization know how far it has come or where …Read More >