Management MUST Manage Suggestion Systems

In the world of idea management, innovation, employee suggestions, or if you want to call it Continuous Improvement, management can make or break the success of a program. It is very often that we hear about programs that got started with a BANG and ended with a bust. Any system, program or process that an organization wants to adopt, needs to be...

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Idea Management: How ideas crash [VIDEO].

  Sometimes the greatest problem interfering with innovation is the negative mindset of the individuals who are involved in the discussion. This video, which I found on You-Tube, is not only funny, but portrays a sad fact concerning how great ideas can be lost in an organization when the focus is placed on the negative aspects of an idea. Dr....

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VIDEO: The Origins of Toyota

Two part video series showing the origins of Toyota. A must see for Innovation fans and Lean Manufacturing Fans. It contains great anecdotes on automation, Poka Yoke, waste elimination, JIT, value added, Kanban, NUMMI, and the birth of Taiichi Ohno’s “Go to Gemba”. These videos will do away with any thought that Lean is to blame for Toyota's current quality problems. tweetmeme_url = "http://www.leanideamanagement.com/2010/06/video-origins-of-toyota.html"; ...

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Think outside the box, or inside the Silo?

I recently read some very interesting discussion points answering “How to get employees to be more innovative and creative?” in the Operational Excellence Group on LinkedIn. One of the points that was brought up, and that I’ve witnessed myself, is that in organizations that do not subscribe to lean philosophies, management in these organizations...

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Are you able to improve your Business Processes effectively?

Organizations are always striving to be better, meet their customer’s ever-rising demands, and remain competitive. There are many methods, practices, and philosophies in which they engage to achieve this (Innovation Management, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, 6-sigma etc.), and organizations invest heavily in tools and consultants to implement...

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