Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
Learn Best Practices for Continuous Improvement
June 5, 2023If you suggest to a group of business leaders that companies should always be working to improve, the response you will get is likely,...
Cultivating A Lean Culture with Intention and Attention
April 9, 2026Depending on where you are right now, it might be hard to believe, but spring is upon us. Yesterday was the first day that it was warm...
Patient Safety Highlight: Is Maternity Care Unnecessarily Dangerous?
February 16, 2017Everybody knows that American healthcare is the most expensive in the world. You’d think that those higher costs pay for safer births,...
Dr. Gregory Jacobson Once Again Takes the Reins as KaiNexus CEO
April 11, 2017KaiNexus would like to announce the retirement of Allan Wilson. Dr. Gregory Jacobson, co-founder and original KaiNexus CEO, has replaced...
5 Reasons Jamie Flinchbaugh Is Awesome
March 19, 2015Jamie Flinchbaugh is a lean author, speaker, and advisor. He co-founded the Lean Learning Center, and has advised companies such as Intel,...
5 Ways To Piss Off Your Employees and Kill Continuous Improvement
July 21, 2016Leaders play a critical role in establishing and supporting cultures of continuous improvement in their organizations. They set the tone...
"Running Out Of Gas," and Other Continuous Improvement Verses
March 18, 2015Thanks to everyone who submitted a continuous improvement haiku on this blog post over the past couple of weeks! We had a great range of...
A Lesson in Kaizen from Yellowstone National Park
October 28, 2026This video is making the rounds on LinkedIn, have you seen it yet? It’s a video about how wolves caused a "trophic cascade” in Yellowstone...
Collaborative Improvement Software in a Trucking and Logistics Company
October 28, 2026One of the most valuable features of continuous improvement software is the way it connects people throughout an organization so that they...

