By: Ken Snyder
When we hired Dr. Rick Edgeman as the director of research at the Shingo institute, he and I discussed how we could improve the process of improvement. I wrote about how critical it is to engage the research community in this effort in my February 2017 blog, “Improving Improvement.” With Rick’s vast experience in the academic world, he suggested that we create a vehicle for publishing scholarly works – i.e., journal articles – in special issues of key academic journals. The plan is to sponsor one or two special issues each year.