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The Lowdown on Standard Work
October 10, 2018Standard work is an important concept for any organization that is interested in embracing continuous improvement. It is relatively...
How Catchball is (a bit) Like Parenting
September 9, 2015When my daughter was in elementary school, every weekday morning, I would drive her to the daycare center located on the site of the...
Why and How to Capture Continuous Improvement Data
September 3, 2015One of the core principles of continuous improvement is that decisions are made based on data. Practitioners don’t just rely on anecdotal...
Breaking Down the Philosophy of Incremental Improvement
October 11, 2023When business leaders talk about business improvement initiatives, conversations can easily drift toward methodologies and tools. While...
5 Technologies That Increase My Efficiency
April 11, 2017In my role as VP of Sales here at KaiNexus, I speak to people all the time that are skeptical about whether technology can make them...
What is Kanban and Why Should You Care?
October 11, 2023If you are new to the world of Lean, Six Sigma or continuous improvement in general, you may be scratching your head over some of the terms...
A Glimpse Into Employee Engagement and the Culture of the SF Giants
October 11, 2023It’s kind of rare when one situation makes an organization’s culture of employee engagement glaringly apparent, but I came across one the...
How to Avoid 4 Common Catchball Errors
July 28, 2015Of the four most popular professional sports in America, baseball is unique in many ways. In the others (basketball, football and hockey),...
The Difference between a Gemba Walk and Management by Walking Around
March 26, 2026"Oh, we already do that. We just call it Management by Walking Around."
We hear this from leaders in every industry. The assumption that a ...
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