This post provides a detailed evaluation and ranking of various Kaizen event templates available online. Kaizen events, integral to continuous improvement processes, involve focused, short-term projects to improve specific areas within an organization. The success of these events hinges on meticulous planning and tracking, and the templates reviewed in this post serve as crucial tools in this regard. Each template is assessed based on ease of download, the prevalence of creator branding, and content quality. The top templates include Learn Lean6Sigma's template, uMass Boston's Kaizen template, CI Toolkit's Kaizen Event Charter Template, Smartsheet's Event Template, and Lucid Meeting's Template, among others. These templates cover a wide range of needs, from issue and improvement tracking to detailed event planning and follow-up.

A very brief guide to 5s - what it is and how it is used.

This article explains how to create a suggestion box using Google Forms and Google Sheets. It covers the steps of creating a Google Form, customizing it, sharing it with employees, setting up a Google Sheet to keep track of the suggestions, and reviewing and responding to the suggestions.

If your employee engagement survey results say that management are not listening to staff and that management don’t want feedback from employees and that your boss doesn’t want to listen to your new ideas, then it is important to take a thoughtful and proactive approach to address the issue.

Vetter is an ideas-focused, cost-effective alternative to SuggestionOx. If you need an employee suggestion box, check us out!

An ever-growing analysis of Continuous Improvement case studies from around the web. For your learning and ours!

As an alternative to IdeaWake, Vetter's simpler, small idaes focused software is what you need. id

Vetter is an alternative to Sharepoint/Teams that cuts through the noise with an organized way to process ideas. In this post we identify 3 big and 3 smaller advantages Vetter offers.

Vetter offers the convenience, simplicity and speed of a traditional suggestion box plus… a whole lot more.

Have you ever wondered where the term Heijunka came from? I know I've asked myself this question when first learning about Heijunka (also referred to as “Toyota Heijunka”). Let's dig in and find out....