Tag: Suggestion Box

In our Healthcare Kaizen books, Joe Swartz and I have tried to make the case that the Kaizen style of continuous improvement isn't just a...

Last Thursday, Joe Swartz and I presented about "Kaizen Coaching" at the annual Shingo Institute Conference. In the start of our breakout session, I made...

One  of the big arguments given for "Lean Government" efforts are the cost savings that are generated by various Lean projects at local, state,...

I'm a critic of traditional suggestion boxes since they are usually garbage cans for ideas. Boxes collect anonymous complaints (not good), and managers often...

Thanks to the Lean Enterprise Institute for recording this short video when we were at the recent Northeast Shingo Prize conference. In this video, I...

This announcement caught my eye recently: "New site lets you tell your boss anything, anonymously." A startup's website allows you to send anonymous ideas or...

Last week, I found and read an article, "Whatever happened to the company suggestion box?," that makes some really great points about the problems...

Here is the fifth in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos  from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team....

I love employee ideas and continuous improvement, but I really dislike suggestion boxes. As I've said, they are well intended, but the whole suggestion...

I saw this article the other day on BusinessInsider.com: "10 Predictions For How The Workplace Will Change In 2012." Two of the predictions caught my...

Today's post is a short one, a bit of a visual puzzler and a reader participation post (leave a comment!). If you were in the...

Some people have said that the pinnacle of lean programs is an effective suggestion program, whether its called quick and easy kaizen or an...