Picture: an AI visualization of the difference of a startup having a high-performance improvement system or not. Perhaps the most overlooked asset in a company isn't its technology, its data or even its people. Investors should distinguish a company's improvement opportunities from its improvement capability, and potentially measure the latter. Imagine that a venture capitalist (VC) could evaluate not only your market, technology, financials and management, but also your orga

Picture: a visualization of the organizational capacity problem. AI Doesn't Change the Rules Organizations, especially mid-sized to large companies, but also smaller ones, struggle with getting any value out of their process improvement efforts. That's no wonder, as very few organizations have a clue what issues need to be in order before any success can emerge. Sure, there may be individuals in the organization who know theoretically, or at the meta level, how things should

Picture: an AI visualization of Germany's productivity problem. If we consider the standard macroeconomic measure of real GDP (or gross value added) per hour worked, Germany has made substantial productivity gains since reunification. However, the rate of improvement has slowed dramatically. Annual labour productivity per hour fell by 1.2% in 2023 and 0.3% in 2024, before increasing by only 0.4% in 2025, according to Destatis data. Productivity here is measured as real output

Picture: an AI-generated visualization of lost opportunities. CEOs, COOs and CFOs need to measure and report the performance of their improvement system, not just the results of individual projects. Asking "Should we use AI?" should be rephrased to "Where is the measurable business value, and why are we not getting more out of it?" The Board of Directors should require that the Executive Team reports at least annually on how much of its improvement potential it is actually ca

Picture: AI-generated visualization of a burning oil rig inspired by former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's "burning platform" memo in February 2011. Nokia missed the smartphone transition. VW cut car-development time 36 months to under 24, and the competitive gap barely moved. What can your company learn from this? The competition between companies changes constantly, and many companies do not recognize the weak or even strong signals for the changed market environment before it is

Picture: AI generated visualization show-casing the forgotten half of the PIY. For a thorough discussion on how process improvement relates to motoring, please check the Car Analogy (incl. Audio Mode) in the app VISTALIZER for Enterprises (paid version required). The wheels in the Car Analogy equal the PDCA cycles. Most companies understand that a plan is needed to improve operations. Somewhat less of the companies realize that both the plan quality and coverage matter. Jus

The VISTALIZER for Enterprises app (v. 3.7.2) contains now the High-Performance Process Improvement (HPPI) VISTALIZER Executive Handbook (pdf), i.e. the strategic guide to organizational excellence. It’s available in the Curated Documents section in the module Proposed Learning Paths. The app usage can now benefit from external integrations. The 1st launced integration is an e-mail integration that makes it possible to collect key tacit knowledge. This is done by utilizing th

Every organization, regardless of industry, size or geography, competes on the performance of its key processes, core or support processes. A process is the interaction of people, technology, information and materials to produce a desired output, whether a product or a service. The aggregate past, current and future performance of these processes determines customer satisfaction, employee engagement, profitability and long-term competitiveness. Yet the uncomfortable truth is

Visualization of an improvement setting HPPI deals with. AI generated picture. Many companies face transformational challenges as markets change more rapidly than the companies can actually deal with. Here new ways of collecting correct and needed data, cultivating the data into correct and needed information (analysis) and furthermore cultivating the information into correct and needed knowledge play a vital role in assuring both the improvement effectiveness and efficiency,

Evaluating VISTALIZER HPPI solutions. AI generated picture. With the advent of generative AI chatbot platforms comes the possibility to get almost instantly a rough understanding what VISTALIZER® powered high-performance process improvement solutions could do for your company. Just prompt in your favourite AI chatbot platform, e.g. gemini.google.com: "How could [Company Name Here] utilize VISTALIZER® powered high-performance process improvement solutions?" and you'll get a ro

The driver may encounter some steerability challenges down the road. What could possibly go wrong? AI generated picture. Being effective means that you are doing the right things. Consequently, improvement effectiveness means that you are improving the right issues. That's simple, isn't it? Well, sort of. To fully understand what improvement effectiveness means requires that you keep in mind that your company does not operate in a static world, but in a dynamic one. The short

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