Posts Categorized: Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement – Best Practice Tip #1

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Do you, as a business owner, have a STOP program in place? This is a company program that requires everyone from owners to leaders to employees to stop and take the space and time required to review what they are doing and how they are doing it. They need to follow a path that ensures… Read more »


Continuous Improvement and You

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  Where is the best place to start with continuous improvement? With yourself! Most of us want to start with projects outside ourselves which may be very important. However, to ensure that continuous improvement becomes a habit, you need to start with yourself! Why? Change or die! Now that sounds dramatic, but the evidence is… Read more »


Bruce Lund on the Beginner’s Mind

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Bruce Lund is the owner/founder of Lund and Company Innovation, a toy design (Inventors of Tickle Me Elmo) and product invention company (www.lundandcompany.com) dedicated to the proposition that toys are profoundly important. Great toys teach, entertain, surprise, inspire and invite inquiry. He began the business on his back porch 25 years ago and now works… Read more »


What is Continuous Improvement?

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Continuous Improvement is a context, a belief system and a way of thinking that for some people is foreign. For advocates, it is a conviction or even a core value that always has them always looking for ways to do things more effectively and efficiently. It is not a destination nor a one-time event. It… Read more »


What is Your Continuous Improvement Budget?

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What is your continuous improvement budget for your company? What is your continuous improvement budget for your department? What is your continuous improvement budget for yourself? Perhaps the single most important thing you need to do in order to at least survive and ideally thrive in any market is to make change and continuous improvement… Read more »


Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement

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Why Three Times? Because continuous improvement must become a habit like brushing your teeth. To do it properly you must implement it at three levels at your firm. Companywide Department wide Individually What is continuous improvement really? Continuous improvement is traditionally considered an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. My take on it:… Read more »


Continuous Improvement While Staying On Track

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How do you make changes with your Security/Compliance oriented staff and keep the train on the tracks?   Continuous Improvement While Staying On Track: My answers   Your security/compliance people give you and the organization steadiness and quality control.  They perform day in day out without much needed fanfare as long as you give them flat… Read more »