How Do I Get Executive Buy-In for Improvement Initiatives?
July 10, 2025You’ve identified inefficiencies. You have a clear roadmap. You know your improvement initiative can move the needle. What's next? You need
6 Steps to Continuous Improvement in Automotive Manufacturing
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How CI and OpEx Leaders Use Hoshin Kanri to Drive Organizational Alignment
July 2, 2025We are fortunate enough to get to spend a lot of time chatting with customers and other organizations that are interested in continuous...
Continuous Improvement vs Operational Excellence: What's the difference? | KaiNexus
June 25, 2025We are often asked if continuous improvement and operational excellence are the same. They are not, but they are closely related....
What Your C-Suite Wants From Your Improvement Program (But Hasn’t Said)
July 10, 2025If you’re a CI leader, you’ve likely experienced the paradox: you’re driving improvements across the organization, but your executive team...
How to Scale Strategy Deployment Across Multi-Site Organizations
June 18, 2025Rolling out Strategy Deployment can be daunting, especially when you’re managing complexity across multiple sites, departments, or regions....
Examples of the 8 Wastes of Lean Across Industries
June 5, 2025One of the most critical concepts in Lean organizations is the idea that it is essential to eliminate waste. Why is it so central to the...
Should You Buy or Build Your Operational Excellence Platform?
May 29, 2025If you want Operational Excellence to deliver the same strategic value as other core business functions like Sales, Marketing, or HR, it...
16 Questions to Ask on Your Next Gemba Walk
May 22, 2025Toyota Chairman Fujio Cho gave a brilliantly simple description of what to do on a Gemba walk. "Go see, ask why, show respect," he said....