Tag: Suggestion Box

Fall in Love with the Problem, not the Solution: In Entrepreneurship...

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I'm looking forward to reading the new book by Uri Levine, the founder of Waze. It's titled: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 22, 2020

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Customer Experience practices are being more widely adopted in healthcare.  Patient satisfaction surveys...

[April Fool] Special Announcement: Our New @KaiNexus Suggestion Box Builds on...

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As a senior advisor to KaiNexus and somebody who has been a member of the team since 2011, it's been amazing to see how...

Santa’s Little Kaizeneers?

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Thanks to my friend Sylvain for sending me this cartoon. It would have been more timely for me to share this before Christmas, but there's an opportunity for improvement. The cartoon series is called Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich. This particular cartoon appeared on December 13, 2017. Here's the top part... please click through to their website to see the entire cartoon and I'll talk about it here in this post, sharing links to other blog posts and videos on the topic.

The State of This Restaurant’s Suggestion Box Didn’t Really Surprise Me...

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Last week, I was in Austin for the annual Lean Coaching Summit, where I took a full-day class on "Motivational Interviewing" (as I had...

How St. Mary’s Hospital (Ontario) Succeeds Through Staff Kaizen Ideas

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Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary's General Hospital in Ontario: You can check out...

Are These Bad Suggestions About Suggestion Boxes?

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I've written a lot about suggestion boxes, and usually in the context of how they don't work well. Many aspects of traditional suggestion box systems sound great, but don't work in practice. What doesn't work: Boxes not being opened very often, being reviewed by a committee or executives...

Why It’s OK That This Suggestion Box Was Full of Cobwebs

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As a guy who started his career in manufacturing before moving to healthcare in 2005, I don't get many opportunities to visit the "Gemba"...

HBR Article on Avoiding the Futility of Suggestion Systems

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Burris has a new article on the Harvard Business Review website: “Employee Suggestion Schemes Don’t Have to Be Exercises in Futility” In my own work and travels, it’s hard to find anybody who has good things to say about suggestion boxes...

When Will The Federal Government & VA Learn? On Suggestion Boxes...

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This article caught my attention the other day: "Philly VA employees ask for golf shirts in suggestion box for improving veteran care." I hesitate to...

Businessweek Article on Employee Ideas

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This Bloomberg Businessweek article caught my eye: "How to Get More Respect From Your Boss With Less Work." It's a misleading headline, almost as...

Denver Jail’s Suggestion Box (and Problems) in the News

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The Denver jail and its suggestion box program made the local news, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request: "9 quotes from Denver Jail...