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Everyday Innovation: Tools and Techniques

Innovation is a necessary part of being a successful, sustainable organization. But how do you make it a regular, predictable part of your business? Everyday innovation doesn’t have to be out of your reach. By applying simple, proven approaches, your company can create a culture that embraces innovation. To do this, you must look forward instead of back. You must understand that innovation is for all, not just a select few. And you must sometimes scrap the very process that you’ve worked to improve.

Hoshin Planning: Connecting Strategy Creation with Strategy Execution

Pick up a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review or read the latest management blog and you’ll see: The debate between which is worse—your strategy or your execution—rages on. There are plenty of studies that show how “80 percent” of companies don’t have a well-thought-out business plan. The idea being that if they just had the plan, then the organization would be ready to deliver. Then there’s just as much literature that espouses the exact opposite: It’s not the strategy that’s lacking, but the sound business processes needed to execute.

Mistake Proofing: Achieving Perfection Through Simple Changes

Have you ever wondered why it’s so easy for improved processes to go back to where they started before the improvement efforts? Why, even if everybody follows the improvement recommendations, the process still produces defects? Why it’s so hard to maintain the benefits in processes after projects are done? The answer to these questions is the effectiveness of implemented process controls.

The Leadership Triangle: How to Achieve Alignment, Accountability and Sustainability

In today’s fast-paced world, the role of the leader has never been more important. Our workforce requires an unprecedented amount of motivation and ongoing development of new skills. Operations teams are challenged to reduce costs and improve effectiveness—often with the same solutions that must not only work today, but also provide long-term benefit. Organizations need alignment, accountability and sustainability to succeed—and it is the job of the leader to provide them.

Value Stream Assessment

Value stream mapping is an important tool used to examine processes for improvement opportunities, but have you ever finished creating the map and then thought, “Now what?” In reality, the practical execution of a value stream strategy goes well beyond the data boxes, flow lines and Kaizen bursts.