Staffing an effective team is a critical aspect of organizational success. Chapter 14 emphasized and focused more on the importance of staffing an effective team for Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs) or Kaizen. A "Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) is a short, intense effort carried out by a team of workers to improve a failing process; an event is typically three to five days long" (Webber & Wallace, 2007). Staffing an effective team is important, it involves expertise and skill set matching, ownership and engagement and immediate payback for improvements