Change happens one person at a time. Each individual will make up their own mind about why they will accept and cooperate with change....

Background Ravasi and Schultz (2006) define organizational culture as a set of shared mental assumptions that guide interpretation and...

A client recently asked, "What is Business Transformation"? There are various explanations offered in literature and on the Internet....

Edgar Schein's Culture Model: The issue: Recently I was in a discussion about the challenge of organizational change, even where the need...

To date we’ve discussed the concept of a productivity barrier removal process. Central to this is to establish how long work should take...

Problem-solving, Art and Science: We’ve covered all the basics in the barrier removal process with one exception: working with people to...

Our blog on short-interval-scheduling (SIS) pointed out how SIS is one of the least promoted, underutilized, yet most effective methods...

Lean Six Sigma and TPM are both highly effective programs. Some practitioners are purists, eschewing alternate methods. "Don't corrupt...

Employee engagement is increasingly a corporate priority. It has become a CEO-level issue. The payoff is in increased productivity and...

This is the second in a series of blogs posts describing an ongoing process of problem solving. This edition speaks to using time as a...