Improving the Way We Manage [Preview of "Lean Hospitals" 3rd Ed.]

Our Mark Graban has been with the KaiNexus team for five years now. In that time, he's released the 2nd edition (2011) and now the 3rd...

Incremental Improvement: Scoring Big with Base Hits

Don’t get me wrong, I love watching Kris Bryant hit the ball out of the park as much as anyone, but swinging for the fences during every...

Gemba Walks: Your Search for 85% of Your Organization's Problems

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a towering intellect whose thinking about improvement affected a quality revolution of gargantuan significance on...

7 Kaizen Software Features You Shouldn’t Live Without

If you’ve decided to invest in technology to support your organization’s improvement efforts and enhance adoption of the Kaizen philosophy,...

Everything You Need to Know From The Health Standards Twitter Chat

Did you catch the Health Standards (@HealthStandards) Twitter chat about Lean on Friday? 

In case you don't know, Twitter chats are an open...

The 3 Ways Improvement Software Gets You Better Results

Every company, no matter how big or how small, wants to improve.

The problem is that there are often ideas or improvements that never make...

6 Reasons Why Your Cross Functional Teams Need Software to Collaborate

In most organizations, the most challenging problems are those that span multiple teams, departments, or divisions. For example, many...

What Sets a Lean Organization Apart?

The business methodology of Lean is often used in the same sentence as other formal business models such as Six Sigma, TPS (Toyota...

Lean Leadership: A Delicate Balancing Act

We are lucky enough to have the opportunity to chat with people who lead Lean organizations all of the time. One question we like to ask...