Maggie Millard
Recent Posts
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...
The Transformational Power of Kaizen Events
June 27, 2016Kaizen events are designed to tackle problems that can be addressed in short order (3-5 days), but they can also have a more profound...
What to Look for When Evaluating Value Stream Mapping Software
July 7, 2016Value stream mapping is a technique that involves analyzing and improving the steps in any process that takes a service or product from the...