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6 years ago

The Questions of Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” · Claude Levi-Strauss · I have written elsewhere of my view that the goal of leadership is attract followers to go in the direction you are leading and that the secret of leadership is the art of aski ...

6 years ago

Plan A and Plan B – Mistakes and a Path for Continuous Improvement

Wayne Yoshida · I recently completed another version of my Lightning Detector for next year’s Maker Faire season. It is the same circuit but packaged in a small desktop cabinet. The new configuration is more compact and self-contained and looks more like a “final product" rather than a “pre-prod ...

6 years ago

Tips for Leading Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · “Leadership!” “Those at the top must lead the parade!” “Can’t do anything without the leaders.” · Ask anyone, what is the most critical success factor in a company’s drive to be innovative or to continuously improve? “Leadership support!” Without hesitation, these are the kind o ...

6 years ago

Maturity and Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · The late, great Jerry Lewis as a young comedian · “You are only young once, Alan, but you can be immature forever.” I’m not sure who first said this to me, probably some elementary school teacher upset by my constant “cutting up” in class. I’ve heard it from several managers over ...

6 years ago

Maturity and Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · The late, great Jerry Lewis as a young comedian · “You are only young once, Alan, but you can be immature forever.” I’m not sure who first said this to me, probably some elementary school teacher upset by my constant “cutting up” in class. I’ve heard it from several managers over ...

6 years ago

Hard and Soft Skills in Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · First, a shout-out to Kelly Eager, who put Dr. Richard Taylor and I together to deliver 4 weeks of continuous improvement (CI) training to a group of operations common process specialists. · It was an unlikely collaboration. Ric is a professional engineer, a statistician, a Lean ...

6 years ago

The 7 Deadly Sinkholes of Continuous Improvement

Alan Culler · Continuous Improvement (CI) is a discipline that has been around in the United States (at least) since the turn of the twentieth century. Frederic Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management (planned and measured activities and workflow) in 1911. Walter Shewhart, a s ...

7 years ago

A Continuous Improvement Initiative Roadmap

Alan Culler · Continuous Improvement Initiatives are hardly a new concept in business, but a couple of times recently I’ve been asked for my idea of how to run one, a roadmap of sorts. For many Continuous Improvement (CI) practitioners this article will seem very basic. It is intentionally so. ...

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