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The 6 Mistakes Most Businesses Make When Adopting a Continuous Improvement Program



Baseball Leadership: A Lesson in Individual and Team Performance



Great Scott! Potential Sighting of Lean Product Development!

There’s a scene in Back to the Future 2 where Doc and Marty McFly are trying to figure out...



DOWNLOAD: The 15 Keys to Successful Organizational Development (A Humanistic Perspective)

Download Slides Now Organizational Development has come a long way from languishing in the...



The Fast Lane to Operational Excellence

For those of us old enough to remember, we have been reading about the "Barriers to Operat...



Driving your employee engagement. What do you think?

A decade after the dot com bubble burst and just a little while after the announcement of ...



Acquisitions Gone Bad – Don’t Do it!



Focus on Productivity to Grow Earnings in This Tepid Economy

This article is Part 1 in a Series on 2017 Planning and Budgeting, originally published on...



Thought for the Day: Focus Determines the Outcome



Successful Innovation: More Ideas is Not Better



Getting airborne: Cultural transformation in the Navy



Beware the New "Instant Pudding"​ of Operational Excellence

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana



Operational Excellence Frameworks: Download Now

Take a look at 3 brand-new Operational Excellence Frameworks available now on BTOES Insigh...



The Employee Engagement Myth

Before anyone starts flaming me that hasn't read the entire article, let me say



Why you need to implement Customer Relationship Management twice

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Transforming Company Culture, Understanding Your Strengths

When People Understand their Inherent Strengths, They can Focus on what they do Best. My g...



FREE GUIDE: Lean 5S

Download the Lean 5S Guide: Learn the Principles of the 5S/6S philosophy and how to succes...



LEARNING RESOURCE: An Introduction to the Business Partnership Life Cycle Scorecard



Performance Metrics that Matter: Effective Productivity Measures

Effective Productivity is a slippery slope. Frankly, I can count on one hand the plants I'...



Don't Sweat the Soft Skills

One of the most frequently asked questions I get as a Lean Six Sigma coach and mentor is a...



7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need a Continuous Improvement Program

It always astounds me when I walk into a large business, even many with a billion dollars ...



Manage passion, NOT people!

Last week, I was at a conference in Dublin and one of the participants was articulating ho...



SME Just Like Me!

Hiring season is underway, and you can’t wait to hire a Subject Mater Expert (SME) just li...



Edwin Moses

Edwin Moses was the greatest 400m hurdler the world has ever seen.



Successful Innovation through Business Process Management.



The OpEx 'Fast Track'

I'm constantly amazed at how easily senior managers and executives in companies large and ...



LEAN and Recruitment

Does your recruitment process suffer from one or more of the following issues? I am just p...



Why Do Internal BPM Projects Fail?



Five Killers of Corporate Culture

There are so many awesome articles, graphs, and reports out there that speak to the import...



The FAST Lane: How Robust is your Sales and Operations Planning Process?

I’ve always thought the delivery performance metric best reflects how well integrated the ...



Acquisitions Gone Bad - A Discussion Based on Observation

I have been blessed, or cursed, to have been involved in turning around two separate acqui...



How Omni-channelized is your customer service strategy?

Two interesting contact center experiences in the last few weeks made me choose this topic...



CASE STUDY: TPM - A Paradigm Shift from "Smokey the Bear" to "Yogi the Bear"

The following case study was written up by Riad, 'Ray' Ardahji, one of 100+ incredible spe...



WHITE PAPER: Transforming Your Customer Experience: The Psychology That Drives Differentiation

TRANSFORMING YOUR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE: THE PSYCHOLOGY THAT DRIVES DIFFERENTIATION Allison ...



Why Oil & Gas companies must plan for low-probability, high-impact events

As particularly complex organizations, oil andgas companies face a number of unique operat...



INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Trends Shaping Safety Culture Management

Safety Culture Management is now under a magnifying lense from HR Management. Courtesy of ...



Finding a "Real" Lean Culture Just by Caring

I had a colleague this past week suggest I read this book they'd stumbled upon 'cause appa...



Leadership: How to Build a Great Team By Focusing on Strengths

My dreams of being a rock star started in third grade. There was the opportunity to join t...



Operational Excellence 2.0: invented in Silicon Valley?

I spent 15 years building Nimbus, a process mapping company, to a reasonable size in the U...



The Fast Lane: The Discontinuous Continuous Improvement Journey

Why do so many operations in so many companies commit to a career-long Continuous Improvem...



Outsourced vendor journey mapping for Customer Excellence. Do you have one?

Customer experience mapping and customer service employee lifecycle mapping are two areas ...



ARTICLE: Are your Work Processes Amazing, or A"Maze"ing?

Over the weekend, I happened to catch up with one of my mentees. I started off asking how ...



ARTICLE: Inventory Your Agile Analysis Skills Toolbox

First thing first, let’s establish two truths to analysis in agile.



ARTICLE: What's Your Lean Business System Reference Model?

Kata: A systematic global cultural development process where patterns of behaviors, values...



ARTICLE: Is it Done Yet?

You know your deliverable and deadline. You have your resources. Is it done yet?



ARTICLE: Structure & Clutter

Flow is one of the key tenets of lean. To that end, continuous improvement professionals e...



ARTICLE: How to Choose Metrics to Drive Continuous Improvement

QUESTION: I am trying to develop a list of metrics to drive our continuous improvement eff...



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Project Award Winner CIBC

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is a leading North American financial institutio...



ARTICLE: Stopping Unsafe Acts Shouldn’t be a “Right”

Have you told your employees that they have the “right” or the “authority” to stop work wh...



ARTICLE: I’m Questioning Everything I Know About Leadership Because of This Data

I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty good operations leader. In fact, I’m sure the pe...



THOUGHT LEADER: Riad (Ray) Ardahji, Zimmer Biomet



ARTICLE: Right People, Right Place

Recently, I had someone respond that Lean was basically "all that foundation stuff" (5S, L...



ARTICLE: Running a Change Program, "Business as Usual"

With the proliferation of Operational Excellence Programs, making change happen in the bus...



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Project Award Winner WNS

WNS is a global provider of Business Process Management and Outsourcing solutions for 200+...



ARTICLE: Are you a "Toxic Leader"?

Like me, you’ve likely worked for several individuals throughout your career—both good and...



ARTICLE: SWAT Team Principles Part 2 - Training like your Life Depends on It

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ARTICLE: Innovating vs. Operating?

Is innovation on the agenda of your organisation, perhaps it is one of your organisation’s...



ARTICLE: 4 Strategic customer service pillars you can’t ignore

Gone are the days when customer service was viewed as an overhead and a non-value add cost...



ARTICLE: Operations Improvement: Common sense is thy name!

Operations Improvement: Lean, TPM, TOC, Six Sigma, WCM…the list is endless and so are oppo...



ARTICLE: What is World Class Manufacturing, and How Do You Measure it?

Question: What is world class and how do you measure it?



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Award Winner Infosys

Infosys, a global leader in technology services & consulting, helps clients in more th...



THOUGHT LEADER: Rick Hepp, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Rick Hepp, Executive Director of Operational Excellence at Bristol-Myers Squibb will be a ...



ARTICLE: Building the 'Fit' Organization

If you’re trying to get fit, don’t try to lose weight. And if you’re a business trying to ...



ARTICLE: Don't Cut Costs, Develop People

No matter how much people know better, no matter how much "lean" training and no matter ho...



THOUGHT LEADER: Ezra Eckhardt, Wave Form Systems, Inc.

Ezra is just one of the many esteemed Operational Excellence thought leaders giving his pe...



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Award Winner Wipro

Wipro delivers IT Services, Business and Technology Consulting, IT Outsourcing and System ...



ARTICLE: Lean and the BMI ( Body Mass Index ) Analogy for Manufacturing

The word Lean conjures up several images in people’s mind whenever it is mentioned. On a p...



THOUGHT LEADER: Peter Evans, LEGO

Director of Lego continuous improvement at LEGO, BTOES Insights is proud to announce Peter...



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Award Winner Delphi Powertrain

Delphi offers unique systems level knowledge and analysis resources for manufacturers of m...



THOUGHT LEADER: Beth Schmidt, Mutual of Omaha



ARTICLE: A Coffee Rant - How Many Steps Does it Take to Fill My Iced Coffee?

Let me start off by saying I don’t drink coffee. Ever. Never have. Never will.



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Award Winner SONOCO

Sonoco is a global provider of packaging products and services, delivering innovative solu...



THOUGHT LEADER: Charles DeBusk, Universal Health Services



CASE STUDY: Operational Excellence Award Winner PACCAR

PACCAR is a global leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality ...



ARTICLE: The 'Performance Management' Myth

I honestly didn't think this was still a big argument. I thought this was something that w...



ARTICLE: How Do You Re-engage an Apathetic, Aging Workforce?

QUESTION: This reader’s question asks about “how to re-engage an aging workforce?” I’m par...



THOUGHT LEADER: Jean Lu, Vanguard



THOUGHT LEADER: Alex Jones, Intel

Alex, Lean Transformation Leader at Intel, is just one of the many esteemed Operational Ex...



THOUGHT LEADER: Sayeed Sanaullah, Wells Fargo



ARTICLE: Are you a 'What' Leader, or a 'How' Leader?

How many times, have you sat in a business review where someone was presenting how well a ...



THOUGHT LEADER: Norbert Majerus, Lean Champion, Goodyear Tire & Rubber



ARTICLE: Mentoring – The Most Charitable Form of Leadership

Who wouldn't want to have “The Most Interesting Man in the World” as their own personal Me...



ARTICLE: What Will Process Excellence Look Like In 2025?

“We wanted flying cars and got 140 character tweets” When people predict the future they a...



THOUGHT LEADER: Maria Thompson, Global Innovation Framework Director, ITW



ARTICLE: How Many Experts are Needed to Embark on a Lean Journey?

QUESTION: We are starting discussions about trying to start a lean initiative and are in d...



THOUGHT LEADER: Christopher Govero, Hospital Sisters Health Systems

Executive Director of Performance Improvement and Outpatient Services at Hospital Sisters ...



THOUGHT LEADER: Joseph Spadaford, Chief Operations Strategy Officer, Computershare



REVIEW: Operational Excellence - Industry Leaders & Pressing Issues

With the release of our 6-part report series, ‘Operational Excellence: Snapshots’, we want...



PARTNER ANNOUNCEMENT: Thought Leadership Webinar Series on Business Transformation & Operational Excellence

We are excited to announce an offer from our partner, the Business Transformation & Op...



ARTICLE: Making Cost Cutting Stick: 5 steps to create a better "cost culture"

While the price of crude oil dropped by more than half in 2014, many oil & gas executi...



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