A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek “incremental” improvement over time or “breakthrough” improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility.
For 20+ years Joe has been empowering organizations, teams, and individuals to continuously improve processes and outcomes toward their goals and ultimately achieve Excellence in their chosen business, function, or discipline. What makes Joe unique is that he has led successful transformation programs across several Fortune 100 companies – and he has experienced the deployment…
I was giving a commencement speech a number of years ago at a university where several students were getting their degrees of varying levels, and I could tell my first comment took the parents as well as many of the graduates completely by surprise. I said, “I don’t want you to try to live a…
The world has been turned on its head thanks to COVID19 and as with most negative things, such as wars and other pandemics, there is generally a hidden benefit that appears once the crisis is over. The fallout from the Coronavirus is already beginning to demonstrate new ways of working and bringing about changes to…
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Have you ever wondered how they design those tiny microrobots, no bigger than the size of a single cell? Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how this is done and reveal some of the many fascinating uses for these remarkable creations from crop disease control to understanding the human brain. Read more…
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As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads the United States and many other countries around the world are asking employees to work from home. This may sound fantastic, akin to a vacation in many ways, but productivity needs to remain and things need to operate as normal is what will be a new normal until the pandemic…
Cindy is as self-made a person as anyone I have ever met. After graduating high school and not having any particular skills that were as yet discovered nor the grades or money to get into University, she joined the United States Navy as an enlisted person. Perhaps she knew, and it’s just as likely she…
