Greg Jacobson
Recent Posts
The Benefits of Structured Improvement Management
April 2, 2015Every organization wants to improve. We all want to reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, become more efficient, and find new ways...
Process Improvement: Measure ROI of Continuous Improvement
April 2, 2015George Mallory was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. When...
Why Continuous Improvement Makes Sense
March 19, 2015Every good cook knows that you have to taste your food at various points in the cooking process to know if you need to add a little salt,...
Improve Safety with These 4 Techniques
March 19, 2015Back in junior high school, they made us take something called industrial arts, AKA shop class. They weren't going to turn a bunch of...
Blame Processes, Not People
October 11, 2023As part of our efforts to share valuable Lean practices with our readers, we've created a series of education videos. Each video covers an...
To Better Understand Kanban, Have a Burrito
March 20, 2015The Kanban method, often implemented in conjunction with the Lean business process methodology, was created as part of the Toyota...
Suggestion Box Humor
July 21, 2016Have you ever noticed how often a "suggestion box" ends up as the gag in a comic strip? I've seen them set up above trap doors, attached to...
5 Things to Look for When Evaluating Improvement Software
March 24, 2015Since the idea of improvement software is pretty new, it’s probably helpful to begin this blog by explaining what it is. Improvement...
KaiNexus Customer Story: Mary Greeley Medical Center CEO Brian Dieter
April 11, 2017We love sharing stories from our customers and how they're using the KaiNexus platform to facilitate, manage, and track their improvement...