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Top 5 Ways to Increase Engagement
Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with clients around the world by supporting and / or leading Lean initiatives. If there’s any major “lesson learned” I’ve taken away from my experiences, it’s that...
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What Is Stopping You From Taking on the Inventory Management Monster?
There are few industries or businesses where improved inventory control could not positively impact bottom line results. Whether it’s something as complex as tracking costly well-drilling equipment, or...
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On A Continuous Improvement Journey, It Pays to Look in the Rearview Mirror
Business leaders are often criticized for their tendency to keep looking “in the rear view mirror,” but is this always a bad thing? In life there are frequent occasions when one can learn from events...
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Recruit for Character Traits That Support A Lean Culture
What separates the good candidates from the great? Is it character, skill or personality? Do you hire for character and train for skill, or do you hire for certain skills and hope for great character?...
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Lean Tools and Techniques to Remember as You Bring in the New Year
With each new year, there comes a time to sit back and reflect on the past to see what wisdom (i.e., lessons learned) we can take forward to create a better future. In 2012, Kaufman Global ventured...
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Three Ways to Leverage Cross-functional Teams for Design Innovation
A recent 60 Minutes segment highlighted the innovative approach used by California-based design firm IDEO and founder David Kelley to incorporate human behavior into the design process. Known as...
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INDIANAPOLIS — Kaufman Global announced today its participation in the ASQ Reliability Division’s annual webinar program, a worldwide education series that promotes quality through reliability...
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The Bacon Revolution: Are You In?
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s a bacon revolution going on. Everyone seems to be talking about bacon and eating more of it lately. Bacon recipes are sweeping the Internet. Fast-food chains...
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KeyNotes E-Newsletter: Collaboration
This issue of KeyNotes focuses on collaboration ― providing news, methods and evidence to celebrate the power of people working together. From the boardroom to field techs, from the factory floor to...
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Lean and Team: A Crucial Pairing for Continuous Improvement
The likelihood of sustainable change is directly related to the degree to which that change is valued and supported by leadership, practiced by the organization, and consistently reviewed for...
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How Engagement and Value are Intimately Linked
The following is an excerpt from Kaufman Global’s latest white paper, “Engage the Organization and a Performance Culture Will Follow,” written by Principal and President Jerry Timpson. The white paper...
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Why Not Me? Great Things Happen To Those Who Do
In life, there are those who watch things happen, and those who step up and make them happen. This concept is woven into the fabric of today’s aggressive and diverse economic landscape, where...
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Research Identifies Top Reasons Why Leaders Do Not Pursue Employee Engagement
The following is an excerpt from Kaufman Global’s white paper, Engage the Organization and a Performance Culture Will Follow, where we examine the reasons why leaders fail to pursue engagement, even...
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Communicating Change: 10 Tips to Attain and Sustain Employee Engagement
When preparing for a Lean initiative, it’s important to realize upfront that a full menu of changes, some large and sweeping, some small but critical, will be generated by and with the employees over...
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Countdown to 2014: Five Steps to Transform Your Workspace
Kaufman Global’s Countdown to 2014 blog series ― a set of five consecutive blog posts to be launched on a weekly basis through the end of the year ― provides creative concepts for leadership to inspire...
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Now’s the Time for a Strong Employee Retention Strategy
Things seem to be looking up. The global economy continues to recover, labor markets are steadily improving, and the GDP is expected to peak in the next two years. These are strong indicators that 2014...
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Change Advocacy: The Ultimate Immunity Challenge
Change is inevitable. Whether you’re leading it, supporting it, or it feels like it’s being forced upon you, uncertainty can make change a painful process. A new reporting structure, the arrival /...
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Procedural Adherence: Your Problem is Bigger than Technology
The following is an excerpt from Kaufman Global’s new white paper, On Procedural Adherence. In this paper we discuss how complexity thrives in the middle of the organization where change is often most...
View ArticleTransform and Sustain: the Real Reasons it’s so Difficult to Make the Connection
Clients never say: “We want to transform and do better, but we don’t care about sustaining the improvements.” Clients always profess a sincere desire to sustain results. So pervasive is this intent,...
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4 Tips for Simplifying Work Complexity (Hint… Start with Smart Design)
Greater complexity means more options for failure. People and processes come together to deliver products and services. Like a ball of string collected, complexity builds as things are added to...
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