Are Gemba Walks Only for Managers?
February 20, 2017During a typical Gemba Walk, a manager or supervisor visits the place where work gets done. He or she observes as processes and tasks are...
Preview of An Upcoming Webinar on Bottom-Up Improvement
February 20, 2017We love our customers at KaiNexus. We admire people who are driving a culture of continuous improvement in their organizations, and we...
A Quick Guide to Lean Construction
February 17, 2017Readers of this blog know that the Lean approach to business management has taken root far outside of the manufacturing sector. It is used...
Electronic Suggestion Box – Sounds Like a Good Idea … But
February 16, 2017We’re in the continuous improvement business, so it isn’t surprising that we sometimes talk to HR managers and other leaders who have been...
The 5 Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturing
February 15, 2017Management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., a nonprofit training,...
How PDSA Could Have Prevented the "Muslim Ban" Fiasco
February 14, 2017Wow! The daily lessons served up by the current political climate in the United States just keep coming. I’m quite certain nobody intended...
How Consultants Can Use Improvement Software To Their Advantage
March 14, 2017Our CEO, Dr. Greg Jacobson, has a cartoon hanging in his office. It must be pretty popular, because I found out Mark Graban actually...
Everything You Need to Know about Strategy Deployment [WEBINAR]
April 7, 2017KaiNexus is pretty lucky in that it has a staff of amazingly talented and knowledgeable individuals. Our Vice-President of Improvement &...
Continuous Improvement in Higher Education
March 8, 2018An increasing number of institutes of higher education are introducing the principles of Lean and other continuous improvement...