7 Critical Lean Construction Software Features

The Lean business practice methodology is becoming ever more popular in the construction industry.

Many leaders in the field are investing...

Bottom-Up Improvement: Finding Strength in Numbers

There is power in “bottom-up” employee improvement, but it doesn’t get widely or easily embraced by organizations, meaning missed...

If You’re Going to Set a Goal, Make it Big, Hairy, and Audacious

Recently, I read this article by Quint Studer: “Set 'Big Hairy Audacious Goals'.” A “big hairy audacious goal,” as the author Jim Collins...

Webinar Preview: How to Leverage Lean for Long-Term Success

There are lots of reasons to subscribe to the KaiNexus blog, but one of the best ones is that you get a heads up about all upcoming...

Why Process Control Charts are a Roadmap to Improvement

Organizations that subscribe to the Lean or Six Sigma business methodology, and others that are devoted to continuous improvement, often...

Strength in Numbers: Improving from the Bottom-Up [Webinar Preview]

I was so excited to do this podcast interview with Mark Graban about tomorrow's webinar, I just had to share it with you all here on the...

How Leading Companies are Improving Visual Management [WEBINAR]

In a recent webinar titled Taking Improvement Boards Digital: How Leading Companies are Improving Visual Management, our CEO and Co-founder...

From the Model A to the Model 3: The Cost of Failing to Improve

The definition of opportunity cost is "a benefit that a person could have received, but gave up, to take another course of action. Stated...

How Lean Coaching is Different for Bottom-Up Improvement

A sustainable culture of continuous improvement needs five things: bottom-up improvement, top-down improvement, strategy deployment,...