End the Blame Game with the 5 Whys
January 26, 2016Most of the organizations we get involved with are quick to embrace the idea and tools of continuous improvement. Employees generally react...
Why Does the Base of the Improvement Pyramid Get Ignored So Often?
January 25, 2016A customer emailed us recently, asking about an improvement pyramid diagram showing different levels of continuous improvement. It's...
The One Crucial Thing Your Kaizen Events Are Probably Missing
January 21, 2016The thing I want to convince you to try with your next Kaizen Event makes a lot of sense, so I find it pretty weird that more organizations...
Common Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Improvement Culture
January 19, 2016It doesn’t take a lot of deep thinking to conclude that a culture of continuous improvement is good for business. Who says, “Improvement...
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...
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