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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 >

The role of a Lean Leader is now becoming well-established within the organizational structures of large corporations that have wholeheartedly embraced Lean as a way-of-life. This role is heavily geared towards process improvement, waste elimination, and the adoption of Continuous Improvement (CI) tools and techniques. Yet, how much …Read More >

The role of a marketing professional has become significantly more complicated in recent years. Whether it’s learning, monitoring and leveraging the latest onslaught of social networking sites entering the marketplace (e.g., Tumblr, Reddit and Pinterest), developing synergistic campaigns / programs  that connect with the narrowest …Read More >

State government is embracing Lean. Once the province of the for-profit sector (“business”), Lean now finds a home ― and future ― within the public sector. Proven agency successes in states such as Michigan and Oregon (see our Department of Human Services| Oregon Health Authority case study), …Read More >

On behalf of the entire Kaufman Global team, I am excited to debut the new version of our KeyNotes e-newsletter. We hope you find the content to be timely and value-added as you drive change initiatives and cultural transformations throughout your organization.

The theme of this newsletter is RECOVERY. While …Read More >

Good Intent Unintentionally Sabotaged – Have you observed this in your organization? Each year the Leadership Team goes through a planning process. With good intention, they launch a number of initiatives to achieve stretch goals. Work begins with great enthusiasm but soon becomes mired down. Reality hits, priorities …Read More >