Permanent Solutions to Perpetual Problems: Why Most Improvements Don't Stick

Here's something that happens every day in your organization: someone solves a problem. A workaround for a broken process. A fix for a...

What Your CI Program Loses When Executives Delegate Change Leadership

Most executives don't oppose continuous improvement. They support it -- in the way they support good nutrition or regular exercise. They...

Psychological Safety and Lean: What Actually Makes People Speak Up

If there is one concept that kept resurfacing across the Ask Us Anything sessions -- even when we were not using the formal term -- it...

How Electrolux Manages 4,000 Audits and 6,000 Improvements a Year with KaiNexus

The Challenge

Electrolux runs one of the most mature continuous improvement programs in global manufacturing. Its Electrolux Manufacturing...

Why Spreadsheets Can't Scale Your Continuous Improvement Program

Every continuous improvement program starts somewhere, and that somewhere is almost always a spreadsheet.

This makes sense. Excel is...

Why Project Management Tools Fall Short for Continuous Improvement

"We already have Monday.com."

If you lead an operational excellence or continuous improvement program, you've heard some version of this...

Finally, a Simpler Way to Do Continuous Improvement: Just Put On These Glasses

For years, we at KaiNexus have been building software to help organizations manage continuous improvement and operational excellence....

Stop Calling It Soft: The Human Edge in Operational Excellence

Today's post is written by Kathy Miller, MAPP, MBA, who we are thrilled to have as a keynote speaker at our upcoming KaiNexicon User...

When the Floor Holds the Leaders Accountable: What Real CI Culture Looks Like

Every conference talk about continuous improvement culture follows the same script. A senior leader explains how they "empowered"...