What This Hospital Does To Get Employees To Speak Up To Improve Safety
July 21, 2016At 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
June 13, 2018Organizations 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
March 8, 2018"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
July 21, 2016Leaders 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
March 18, 2015Thanks 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
March 20, 2015This 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
August 28, 2015One of the most valuable features of continuous improvement software is the way it connects people throughout an organization so that they...
Two Essential Ingredients for Effective Cross Functional Collaboration
August 28, 2015Most business leaders recognize the advantages of effective cross functional collaboration and encourage it within their organizations....
Office Safari: How to Spot an Engaged Employee in the Wild
March 23, 2015According to a Dale Carnegie survey of more than 1,500 employees, fully 71% are not engaged. So while engaged employees aren’t exactly as...