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Using AI for Continuous Improvement: Removing Digital Waste at KaiNexus
September 3, 2026One defunct podcast host left 70 broken audio players across the KaiNexus website. The obvious and known fix was to replace them one at a...
The Lean Audit You Haven't Run on Your Own System
August 17, 2026If you lead continuous improvement, you spend your days coaching other teams through Lean thinking. Standardize the process. Make the work...
How CI Leaders Can Make a Stronger Case for Funding
July 17, 2026Why can a strong, and capable, continuous improvement program still struggle to secure or maintain funding?
That is the question Jeff...
The Manager Who Got Kaizen Down from a Day a Week to an Hour a Week
July 6, 2026A new manager went to Joe Swartz, then Director of Business Transformation at Franciscan St. Francis Health, with a problem. Kaizen was...
Why Effective A3 Authors Need Permission to Fail
June 29, 2026Taiichi Ohno was famously direct about experimentation. The story most people know is the one where he drew a chalk circle on the factory...
Two Questions Kim Barnas Wanted Every Leader to Ask
June 22, 2026The continuous improvement community lost Kim Barnas earlier this year. She passed away on January 3, 2026, after several years of...
No, You Can't Disband Your CI Team After Two Years
June 16, 2026Not long ago, an organization told us it was dissolving its continuous improvement department. The reasoning sounded almost responsible....
Why Improvements Don't Stick: It's Not Backsliding, It's a Failed Handoff
June 5, 2026Every continuous improvement professional has heard some version of the same complaint.
"We ran a great kaizen event. We came back ninety...
When Local Improvement Wasn't Enough: How St. Clair Hospital Scaled a Lean Culture
May 29, 2026CASE STUDY
How St. Clair Hospital scaled a Lean culture across 2,400 employees with a two-person improvement team
At a glance
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