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.

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.

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.

A list of ideas you could submit right now to Vetter.

Thanks to the following individuals, for responsibly disclosing a security vulnerability (now-fixed vulnerabilities) in Vetter.

Today we proudly announce a neat new feature - Idea Owners.

This feature enables Admins to assign any user as an ‘Idea Owner’ of a particular Vetted Idea. This ‘Idea Owner’ can then provide feedback on the idea (if/when it will be implemented etc.) via the Vetted Ideas/Idea Status pages.    

Suggestion boxes are a great way to open lines of communication with your staff. Not only will they allow employees the chance to share their ideas and report any workplace failures, but they'll also provide management, with on-the-ground feedback about everyday business operations. But what if you aren't sure what the policy should look like? What rules and regulations should you put into place to make sure everyone uses the box to its fullest potential? Here are just a few suggestions for creating your employee suggestion box policy.