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Everything You Want to Know about Hoshin Kanri, but Are Afraid to Ask
August 15, 2016When I first started thinking and writing about all of the tools and techniques that organizations use to embrace continuous improvement...
Top 5 Questions About Standard Work
August 30, 2016When we talk to leaders and managers about continuous improvement, one subject that is always important is that of Standard Work. We find...
7 Simple Tips for Building Cross Functional Teams
August 3, 2016Last year, research by the Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional, meaning that “They fail on...
What Leaders Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations
October 11, 2023High reliability organizations are those that succeed despite significant risk, and massive consequences of failure, in industries ranging...
A Simple Kaizen Event Roadmap
July 28, 2016We’ve written before about the fact that the success of a Kaizen event depends on what happens before, during, and after, with each phase...
A Lean Transformation From a Struggling ED to Top Notch
July 27, 2016Here at KaiNexus, we have some pretty impressive customers and we work with very talented, passionate people every day. One such individual...
Can You Do a Rapid Improvement Event Without Software?
July 21, 2016Of course you can do a rapid improvement event without any software support. You can also walk the 20 miles to work and send memos via...
A Call For a Fundamental Change to Our Medical Culture
February 16, 2017Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to John Hopkins Researchers. In 1999, the Institute...
Is Your Visual Management Board Doomed to Fail?
October 5, 2016We recently came across a great article in IndustryWeek by Dan Markovitz, president of Markovitz Consulting, a faculty member at the Lean...
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