Plan, Do, Study & Act Cycle

We help you improve productivity through Teams, Tools and Technology

CRISP is a new approach to teams and solving systemic safety problems!

“The discipline of team learning, like any discipline, requires practice. Yet that is exactly what teams in modern organizations lack. Imagine trying to build a great theater ensemble or a great symphony orchestra without rehearsal. Or a great championship sports team without practice. In fact, the process where by such teams learn is through continual movement between practice and performance, practice, performance, practice again, perform again.” Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

CRISP (Continual Renewal and Improvement of System/Safety Performance) workshops.
A Plan for Analytic and Synthetic Problem Solving

We have been presenting our three-day CRISP workshop since 1988. This is a unique approach because it integrates all facets of continual improvement which include:

Culture Change
Profound Knowldege
Teams and cooperation
Customer focus
A structured, disciplined approach for organizational problem solving
A way to put creativity and ingenuity back into problem solving
How to use analysis and synthesis together to solve system problems
Achievement orientation - the use of intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
14 Points to guide management and associates to make the transformation to the post-industrial management model
Applying the Plan, Do, Study and Act problem solving model to all problem solving techniques, i.e. DMAIC, FEMA, etc.
Our virtual follow-up system with your teams to guide and mentor them through their projects!

Why should your organization consider CRISP?

Almost everyone of our clients has tried some sort of management improvement effort; Lean, TQM, Lean - Six Sigma, TRIZ, Shainin, 5 S, etc. All of these efforts do work but how do you bring them all together?. Culture is the key to any continual improvement effort. Profound Knowledge creates a lens to view the world in a different light. With its emphasis on systems thinking, how to obtain true knowledge, variation and psychology it takes you to a new level of thinking and performance. Profound knowledge changes how you look at the world of work.. We are in a new economic era and a new management paradigm. CRISP will help your people embrace this transformation by showing them how to:

Enhance and improve your existing continual improvement efforts.
Tune up, advance and practice their team skills
Leverage teams, tools and technology
Apply profound knowledge to study and improve your systems
Combine Analysis and deductive reasoning with Synthesis and inductive reasoning
Create organizational alignment to save time, enhance team performance, document problems solved and build a knowledge management system
Take your organization to the highest level of performance on a consistent basis
Put pride, joy and passion back into work!

Each workshop is customized to meet the needs of our clients. We work with all of your employees so they can improve your work systems to improve your customer satisfaction and competitive position.

What people say about CRISP workshops

"I have been to many workshops. This is the only one that gave me the tools to use that will really work." Supervisor, Elliott Equipment, Omaha, NB

"It was a fresh way to look at and deal with the issues." Production Supervisor, Becton Dickinson

"I think it is very effective and the others in our group brought a lot to the table. All things considered it was a positive and productive experience." Line associate, Callaway Golf

"I like it - it opens many doors for employee involvement, morale, safety and job satisfaction." Production worker, Merrillat Industries

"I learned that working as a team allows you to give your input and feel that you are actually getting the chance to voice your ideas and opinions. Now you feel that you are part of the system." Production supervisor, Navistar

A CRISP team in action!

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