How Improvement Software Supports Standard Work

Standard work is an essential starting point for improvement. Processes that are poorly documented and inconsistently executed are...

Common Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Improvement Culture

It doesn’t take a lot of deep thinking to conclude that a culture of continuous improvement is good for business. Who says, “Improvement...

See How This Customer Accelerated Improvement with KaiNexus [Video]

At the 2015 KaiNexus User Conference, one of our customers told us this story about his grandfather:

"It’s a family owned company - I’m...

A Life Hack Born of Continuous Improvement

In my line of work, I'm lucky enough to get to connect with tons of clever people from all areas of the improvement space. One such contact...

What Millennials Think of Your Electronic Suggestion Box

Do you ever wish that you could read the minds of your employees? This would be an especially great trick when trying to understand the...

A Short List of Easy and Effective Ways to Spread Innovation

Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, said, “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t...

Here's Why You Need To Start 2016 with a Rapid Improvement Event.

Rapid improvement events, also known as Kaizen events, involve a small team devoting 100% of their time over three to five days to...

4 Unexpected HR Benefits of Continuous Improvement

Organizations embrace continuous improvement, sometimes utilizing business process methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean, in order to...

Happiness Is Not The Goal Of Employee Engagement Activities

I was just reading an article that claimed to be a “comprehensive list of employee engagement activities.” One of the suggestions was to...