Should Lean Tools Be Used for Every Improvement?

Small #kaizen at a #Lean #SixSigma conference — tape markings on stage to show speakers where to stay for the purposes of lighting and...

Podcast: How Daily Tiered Huddles Work at Cleveland Clinic

When a group of us from KaiNexus attended the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in June, one of our favorite presentations was given by...

Kaizen and the Art of Kintsugi: Redefining Perfection

As regular readers of this blog know, many of the ideas and practices that guide the modern continuous improvement movement have their...

French Fries and the Culture Imperative

“Culture isn’t just on aspect of the game – it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of...

The Lean Linchpin: Middle Managers

A linchpin is a fastener passed through the end of an axle to keep a wheel in position. The term is also used figuratively, according to...

How to Navigate the Transformation Continuum | Webinar Recap

We have been very fortunate to have an impressive lineup of guest presenters for our webinar series on continuous improvement. Roger Chen...

Easy-to-Try Process Improvement Examples

When people talk about business process improvement, the conversation can get very far into the weeds quickly. There are several...

More Brilliantly Simple Continuous Improvement Techniques

A while back, we wrote about some continuous quality improvement techniques that we love because they are easy but powerful. One of the...

#TargetDown is an Opportunity for Improvement

I guess I picked a bad day to go to Target. I kind of knew it was a bad day to go to Target because it was a Saturday and the day before...