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• From Reaction to Redesign: When BPR Is Your Only Option

  When processes are fundamentally broken, you aren’t left with many choices. You can try to tweak and improve them incrementally. However, this only serves to spin the wheels, wasting resources and manhours. If a process isn’t working, you have to make the change, and that often means leaning on BPR to make things […]

• Precision Healthcare: How Lean Six Sigma Saves Lives and Dollars

  Any instance in which Lean and Six Sigma are matched, like in areas like healthcare, you know there is going to be some major changes taking place. With the Six Sigma methodology already capable of making sweeping changes across different industries like healthcare, it was only a matter of time before Lean Six […]

• Hoshin Kanri vs. OKRs: Which Approach Is Right for Your Business?

  Hoshin Kanri vs. OKRS is a debate you’ll likely come across when looking at strategic goals in your organization. Ostensibly, both of these frameworks cover a lot of the same ground, but how they let you act upon your long-term goals and strategy is a different matter altogether. It will come down to […]

• Hoshin Kanri in the Agile Workplace: Bridging Strategy and Speed

  Integration of Hoshin Kanri into an Agile workplace can seem somewhat daunting at first glance, given how disparate both approaches are. However, teams on the hunt for a hybrid approach that emphasizes strategic planning might find this combination to be just what the doctor ordered. It does take a deft hand when it […]

• Lean’s Untapped Potential for Innovation

  When most people stop and think about what the Lean methodology is doing in the real world, it’s often viewed as a step-by-step approach to a problem. This means that a company is taking incremental steps toward a fix that is usually the result of identifying a wasteful aspect of its business operations […]