Maggie Millard
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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 18, 2018Depending 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,...
The Empirical Case for Employee Recognition Software
April 2, 2015As more and more business operations are supported by technology that is capable of generating data to inform decisions, executive teams...
The Role of Succession Planning in a Kaizen Culture
March 20, 2015Succession planning is defined as “the identification of job vacancies that can be expected to occur through retirement or attrition, and...
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...