The Empirical Case for Employee Recognition Software

As more and more business operations are supported by technology that is capable of generating data to inform decisions, executive teams...

The Role of Succession Planning in a Kaizen Culture

Succession planning is defined as “the identification of job vacancies that can be expected to occur through retirement or attrition, and...

What This Hospital Does To Get Employees To Speak Up To Improve Safety

At KaiNexus, we strongly believe that the first step in improvement is getting people to speak up. That means making it safe for everybody...

An Introduction to Hoshin Kanri

Organizations getting started with continuous improvement practices often worry that the improvement efforts won't align with the goals of...

5 Employee Engagement Ideas for Creating a Culture of Change

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

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5 Ways To Piss Off Your Employees and Kill Continuous Improvement

Leaders play a critical role in establishing and supporting cultures of continuous improvement in their organizations. They set the tone...

"Running Out Of Gas," and Other Continuous Improvement Verses

Thanks to everyone who submitted a continuous improvement haiku on this blog post over the past couple of weeks! We had a great range of...

A Lesson in Kaizen from Yellowstone National Park

This video is making the rounds on LinkedIn, have you seen it yet? It’s a video about how wolves caused a "trophic cascade” in Yellowstone...

Collaborative Improvement Software in a Trucking and Logistics Company

One of the most valuable features of continuous improvement software is the way it connects people throughout an organization so that they...