“What is Kaizen?” & 5 Other Continuous Improvement Questions Answered

When someone first gets involved in continuous improvement, I bet it feels a bit like I’d feel if I went to a convention for...

Employee Recognition Software and the Spirit of Thanksgiving

I love that Thanksgiving gives us all a reminder each year to be grateful for the people and things that we value in life. Some people...

Catchball: An Essential Practice for Flat Organizations

A flat organizational structure with few or no levels of middle management can be extremely conducive to innovation and improvement....

3 Expert Approaches to Getting Started with Continuous Improvement

-Three KaiNexus customers from two very different industries shared strategies for jump-starting continuous improvement at the recent 2015...

How These Organizations Implement 75% of Improvement Ideas

Some organizations have all the luck. Their employees are smarter, more creative, and more dedicated to their work. I don’t know how they...

Leading with Passion [KaiNexus Podcast Episode #16]

Every once in awhile we have a meeting here at KaiNexus in which our CEO Greg Jacobson dorks out about how awesome our team is and how far...

Giving Back: Continuous Improvement in the Non-Profit Sector

The other day, somebody shared this excellent article from 2013 about Toyota volunteering their time to help non-profits, from the New York...

Incremental Improvement and the Average Joe

Imagine that on New Year’s Day, Average Joe decides he needs to get healthier. All he needs to do is: quit smoking, stop drinking, run 3...

Is Kaizen Software Just a Glorified To Do List?

No.

(I could drop the mic and walk away from the shortest blog ever, but that would be rude.)

We’ll be the first to admit that when Kaizen...