It’s like building a house before checking whether the foundation is made of concrete – or wishful thinking. ISO without Kaizen locks in inefficiency and other wasteful processes. It’s a bureaucracy ...

What is “gemba”? The Japanese term describes where the action is or where the actual work is performed. In manufacturing, that location is frequently the shop floor, where employees weld, machine, ...

I recently visited a very large and complex manufacturing operation struggling to produce enough material to meet demand. On paper, there seemed little room left for improvement. Conventional wisdom ...

In the first months of his administration, President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened due process, a fundamental principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. His attacks have spanned from the ...

Make sure your people and your technology work well together. by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman When Mars Wrigley decided to digitize its supply chain, it invested in several AI and ...

Earth is bathed in nitrogen. It makes up about 78% of the atmosphere, and it’s stitched into every nucleotide, every cell, every living thing on the planet. But before humans learned to synthesize ...

Learn how Gemba Walking is used by leaders to better understand the current state process. “Gemba walking” is leadership visiting the actual location where work is being conducted by the employees so ...

Sovereign invested in Actica in 2022 Sovereign Capital Partners is a UK private equity firm focused on service-based sectors Actica is based in Surrey Sovereign Capital Partners-backed Actica has ...

In an earlier blog, we showed you how the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization is optimizing internal processes using Copilot for automation and process mining in Microsoft ...

Gemba Capital, a Sebi-registered micro VC firm, has announced the launch of its second fund with a corpus of Rs 250 crore (around $30 million), including a green shoe option of Rs 50 crore ($6 million ...