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January 9, 2025Gemba walks have become a widely adopted management technique. Leaders gain valuable insights into organizational value flow and often...
Optimizing Continuous Quality Improvement: Essential Tools and Strategies for Success | KaiNexus
December 30, 2024Every organization that embarks on a journey toward continuous quality improvement is unique. Leaders in every industry, from healthcare to...
How Visual Management Tools Start & Sustain Improvement
December 23, 2024Visual management tools surround us. Although they are so ubiquitous, we might not even think about them. For example, when your car is...
5 Whys: A Simple Tool for Root Cause Analysis and Goal Setting | KaiNexus
December 17, 2024The 5 Whys technique is a cornerstone of Lean management and continuous improvement practices. Originally developed as part of the Toyota...
How to Create and Implement a Process Improvement Plan | KaiNexus
December 10, 2024We get the chance to chat with managers and leaders who are faced with a wide variety of business challenges. One of the most common is the...
Kaizen Event Planning in 7 Simple Steps
December 5, 2024Here at KaiNexus, we get the opportunity to chat with organizations across all industries and write about many different continuous...
Continuous Improvement in Financial Services | KaiNexus
December 3, 2024When people think of structured continuous improvement methodologies like Lean and Six Sigma, they usually associate them with...
15 Benefits of Standard Work
November 26, 2024Taiichi Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System, once said, “Without Standard Work, there is no Kaizen.” That’s a pretty bold...
11 Reasons to Use Cross-Functional Teams
November 21, 2024Organizations turn to cross-functional teams for a variety of reasons. Almost everyone can agree that this type of collaboration is...
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