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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 >

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 >

There are two primary dimensions of managing your human capital―Strategic and Administrative. These same components also play an important role in Lean Transformation where skilled “people involvement” before, during and then ongoing can make a huge difference.

It’s common for organizations to begin their Lean journeys focusing on production, …Read More >

Kaufman Global today announced the release of its latest white paper titled, “Special Considerations for Rapid Improvement in Office Kaizen.” This new document details the significance of Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs) in accelerating results within office environments.

A RIE can be quickly defined as a …Read More >

We Don’t Need No Stinking Assessment | By the time we meet most organizations, they want to get going with their transformation immediately. They often want to rush to implementation without a roadmap, resulting in the classic gotcha of “activity vs. action.” However, without clear direction, activity …Read More >