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Management for Omotenashi Receives Shingo Publication Award
March 8, 2023 – the Shingo Institute
Management for Omotenashi: Learning to Lead for Purpose, Passion, and Performance by Michael Martyn Receives Shingo Publication Award Summary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of his work, Michael Martyn has been selected as a recipient of the internationally...
Read Full ArticleShingo Prize Awarded to Escondida | BHP in Chile for Organizational Excellence
March 8, 2023 – the Shingo Institute
LOGAN, Utah, March 8, 2023 – The Shingo Institute, a program in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, has awarded its top and most prestigious honor, the Shingo Prize, to Cathodes, Escondida | BHP, Antofagasta, Chile. “Receipt of the Shingo Prize is a worldwide recognized symbol of an...
Read Full ArticleManagement for Omotenashi: Learning to Lead for Purpose, Passion & Performance Awarded the Shingo Publication Award
February 17, 2023 – the Shingo Institute
Management for Omotenashi: Learning to Lead for Purpose, Passion, and Performance by Michael Martyn Receives Shingo Publication Award Summary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of his work, Michael Martyn has been selected as a recipient of the internationally recognized Shingo...
Read Full ArticleAvoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap Receives Shingo Publication Award
January 23, 2023 – the Shingo Institute
Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap: 12 questions to understand what’s truly underneath your culture by Patrick Adams Receives Shingo Publication Award Summary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of his work, Patrick Adams has been selected as a r...
Read Full ArticleWhy Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture Awarded the Shingo Publication Award
December 12, 2022 – the Shingo Institute
Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture by Chris Butterworth, Morgan Jones, and Peter Hines Receives Shingo Publication Award Summary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of their work, Chris Butterworth, Morgan L. Jones, and Peter Hines have been se...
Read Full ArticleAll About Pull Production Awarded the Shingo Publication Award
October 10, 2022 – the Shingo Institute
All About Pull Production: Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Kanban, CONWIP, and other Pull Systems in Lean Production by Christoph Roser Receives Shingo Publication AwardSummary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of his work, Christoph Roser has been selected as recipie...
Read Full ArticleBoston Scientific Site Receives International Recognition for Operational Excellence
August 8, 2022 – the Shingo Institute
Boston Scientific Site Receives International Recognition for Operational Excellence Summary: After trained examiners and accomplished business professionals performed a thorough assessment of the company’s facility in Arden Hills, Minnesota, Boston Scientific was awarded the internationally recognized Shingo Silver Medallion from the ...
Read Full ArticleWhy the Shingo Principles Can Help Prevent Organizational Burnout
July 12, 2022 – The Manufacturing Institute
The term burnout was coined in the 1970s by the American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger to describe the consequences of severe stress. Today, burnout seems to have become a mass phenomenon that affects people in all professions. It is also one of the most widely discussed mental health problems of our time. A recent repor...
Read Full ArticleLeading for Passion, Purpose, and Performance
June 9, 2022 – Michael Martyn
Recently, the Shingo Institute held its 34th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference was “Building a Culture of Growing, Enduring Excellence” and the sessions included topics on creating great culture, leading with humility, nourishing employee engagement, meeting people where they are, inspiring people to be th...
Read Full ArticleShingo Prize Awarded to Hologic, Coyol, Costa Rica, for Organizational Excellence
May 10, 2022 – the Shingo Institute
Shingo Prize Awarded to Hologic, Coyol, Costa Rica, for Organizational Excellence Summary: After thorough assessment by trained examiners and accomplished business professionals, Hologic, Coyol, Costa Rica has been awarded the internationally recognized Shingo Prize from the Shingo Institute, a program of the Jon M. Hunt...
Read Full ArticleThree Shingo Academy Members to be Inducted at the 34th Annual Shingo Conference
May 3, 2022 – the Shingo Institute
The Shingo Institute Will Induct Three Shingo Academy Members at the 34th Annual Shingo Conference Summary: Members of the Shingo Academy exemplify a lifetime commitment to organizational excellence. When they are inducted into the Shingo Academy, they become ambassadors of goodwill for the Shingo Institute. Logan, Utah — ...
Read Full ArticleSales Growth Plan: The Missing Link in Most Lean Startups or Revitalizations
April 29, 2022 – RC Caldwell
All case studies data and information have been altered to maintain the confidentiality and proprietary materials of the companies involved. Why is a Sales Growth Plan Important to Lean Journey Startups? I do not know how often a company leader has said to me, “Don’t use the word ‘Lean’ here because it’s a bad word...
Read Full ArticleLeading and Managing are Not the Same Thing
March 18, 2022 – Gwendolyn Galsworth
The year: 1989. Florida Power & Light had just won the Deming Prize, Japan’s national quality award, and became the first company outside of Japan to do so. Congratulations poured in from all over the world and deservedly so. The words of the company’s CEO, Charles Turner, struck a particularly insightful note: The biggest obstacle...
Read Full ArticleWhy Not Collaborate? Check the Three Insights of Organizational Excellence
March 13, 2022 – Bruce Hamilton
In my experience, collaboration is a prized quality of enterprise excellence more frequently discussed as an elusive ideal than actually practiced. Yet, this non-technical aspect of continuous improvement—working together—is truly the catalyst that amplifies both individual and organizational innovation. Therefore, as an examiner for the ...
Read Full ArticleWhy Bother With a CI Culture Assessment System?
February 17, 2022 – Chris Butterworth, Morgan Jones, and Peter Hines
“Why Bother?” is deliberately intended to be a thought-provoking title. It also reflects the authors’ experiences with some of the struggles that organizations go through to get real value from an assessment system. One of the most common reactions we see from many people can be summarized as, “Please, not another audit from HQ!” CI le...
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