What is Visual Management? It's Not Just Visual… It's Management, Too
October 11, 2023If you learn even just a little bit about the Lean methodology, you'll hear (hopefully) about a concept called "visual management." It's a...
Why It's So Hard to Change Minds to Spread Improvement
February 11, 2020Frustrated that you can't expand the improvement culture beyond an initial small group?
Having trouble convincing senior leadership to...
See How This Customer Accelerated Improvement with KaiNexus [Video]
April 11, 2017At 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
February 11, 2020In 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...
How to Assemble the A-team for your Kaizen Event
January 11, 2016We’ve written before about what to do and what not to do when conducting a Kaizen Event. Today seems like a good opportunity to focus on...
What Millennials Think of Your Electronic Suggestion Box
January 8, 2016Do 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
July 21, 2016Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, said, “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t...
The Neglected Aspect of Lean: Practical Problem Solving [Webinar]
July 21, 2016We're very excited to be hosting a webinar on January 12, 2016, featuring Jon Miller, co-author of the excellent book Creating a Kaizen...
The 5 Biggest Hoshin Kanri Software Blunders
January 5, 2016Hoshin Kanri, or "strategy deployment," is a formal Lean method that is used to get everybody pointed in the right direction. Hoshin means...
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