Operational Excellence in Government: Moving From Program Success to System Reliability
Modernization initiatives often suceed yet struggle with enterprise reliability. A reliability focus converts episodic innovation into sustained performance.
Posts Tagged: continuous improvement
Mastering Workforce Management: Winning Strategies for Government Leaders
Discover essential strategies for government leaders to enhance workforce management, boost productivity, and foster a motivated team ready to tackle public service challenges.
From Containers to Kubernetes: The Definitions, Connections and More
In this blog post, we define the terms and explain the connections of a modern software factory.
Leadership as Practice: Why Be a Student of Leadership
Approaching leadership as a practice can help us avoid the leadership gap that occurs when we understand our leadership title to be a license to wield power, rather than the responsibility to offer inspiration.
The Key to Continuous Process Improvement Projects
Before diving into the CIP pool, consider whether doing the process improvement project makes sense in the big-picture direction your agency wants to head
Stop Talking About Yesterday
If I described our work in the present and future, wouldn’t that be more compelling, and interesting? Discussing how we work hard to support the continuous improvement culture, capacity, and results for state government? Yes, yes it would.
Cake Projects at Work
You can’t have cake projects every day at work. No way would you ever get your ‘real’ job done. So, how can you get that “I’m eating cake!” feeling from your current assignments, until the next big ‘cake project’ comes along?
Inspiring Quotes From America’s Great Thinkers and Doers
Here are some quotes from many of America’s great thinkers and doers as inspiration for your Fourth of July holiday.
I Am No Longer Doing Continuous Improvement Projects!
We don’t talk about improvement methodologies. My team and I listen, learn, and then work to solve the problem.
Assemble the Government Avengers: A Comic Book Lesson in Collaboration
In the world of government, we have many common threats to face. Though it may be possible to withstand them on our own, we make ourselves much mightier when we band together and tackle them as a team.