6 Steps to Continuous Improvement in Automotive Manufacturing

Manufacturers in the automotive sector face significant pressures today, from rising material costs and supply chain disruptions to the...

How CI and OpEx Leaders Use Hoshin Kanri to Drive Organizational Alignment

We are fortunate enough to get to spend a lot of time chatting with customers and other organizations that are interested in continuous...

Continuous Improvement vs Operational Excellence: What's the difference? | KaiNexus

We are often asked if continuous improvement and operational excellence are the same. They are not, but they are closely related. ...

What Your C-Suite Wants From Your Improvement Program (But Hasn’t Said)

If you’re a CI leader, you’ve likely experienced the paradox: you’re driving improvements across the organization, but your executive team...

How to Scale Strategy Deployment Across Multi-Site Organizations

Rolling out Strategy Deployment can be daunting, especially when you’re managing complexity across multiple sites, departments, or regions....

8 Wastes of Lean: Examples You'll Recognize From Your Job

Every process in every organization contains waste. That claim sounds dramatic until you start looking for it. Then it becomes obvious.

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Should You Buy or Build Your Operational Excellence Platform?

If you want Operational Excellence to deliver the same strategic value as other core business functions like Sales, Marketing, or HR, it...

16 Questions to Ask on Your Next Gemba Walk

Toyota Chairman Fujio Cho described the Gemba walk in six words:

"Go see, ask why, show respect."

"Why?" is essential, but it's not the...

Lean Process Management: From Principles to Daily Practice

Lean process management is what happens when Lean principles stop being a workshop topic and start being an operating system. It's the...