Beyond the Suggestion Box Video

As part of our efforts to share valuable Lean practices with our readers, we've created a series of education videos. Each video covers an...

An Introduction to Gemba Walks

If you were watching CSI Tokyo, much of the action would take place at gemba, the scene of the crime. In Japanese, the word gemba means...

To Get Good Ideas, Identify Lots of Opportunities for Improvement

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

Process Improvement Best Practice: Capture & Use Tribal Knowledge

In their book, The Tribal Knowledge Paradigm, Dr. Leonard F Bertain Ph.D., George Sibbald wrote,

“Tribal Knowledge or Know-How is the...

How To Achieve Rapid Continuous Improvement

Some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations, including GE, Toyota, and Amazon have implemented sophisticated business...

Find Something to Implement

As part of our efforts to share valuable Lean practices with our readers, we've created a series of education videos. Each video covers an...

Improve Safety with These 4 Techniques

Back in junior high school, they made us take something called industrial arts, AKA shop class. They weren't going to turn a bunch of...

Video: Mark Graban Discusses the Shared Vision at KaiNexus

Mark Graban has been part of the KaiNexus team longer than anyone beside the co-founders Greg and Matt, and has been a huge contributor to...

Tips for Addressing Common Continuous Improvement Roadblocks

As we wrote about before, we always ask a few questions of the attendees of our monthly webinars, so that we can get a feel for what...