You have big, ambitious goals and even bigger dreams. But how do you get from where you are now to making those dreams come true? The answer may surprise you: By aiming for just 1 percent improvement.

Building agility into your team’s approaches can help your organization adapt to fast-changing conditions from within or even external ones. A key part of this that has benefited many of my consulting ...

Having an ideal organizational culture (however you define “ideal”) is the white whale for many leaders. This is more than a bit surprising, considering all the books that have been published on ...

Continuous improvement has been mastered by industry leaders like Jeff Bezos who popularised the term “flywheel” to describe a virtuous cycle of improvement in product delivery and customer experience ...

“A place for everything and everything in its place” is a maxim that’s familiar to most of us. What you might not know is that more than just an old saying, it’s also another way of expressing the ...

States’ plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act will help guide their K-12 policy for the forseeable future. And a number of states embraced the concept of “continuous improvement” as part of the ...

Depending on your exposure to the term, it might sound counterintuitive to hack your own business. Beyond the simple cybersecurity meaning of the term, there is another way it is used. By “hack” your ...

Five years ago the editors of IndustryWeek invited a stock analyst to come in and tell us how his company identifies value when evaluating manufacturing companies. He was a very nice man, and we sent ...

It is easy to think of lean manufacturing as a linear process. You install a lean system, you train your people, you hold kaizens and make improvements and the ...