What Leaders Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations
October 11, 2023High reliability organizations are those that succeed despite significant risk, and massive consequences of failure, in industries ranging...
XYZ Thinking: Practical View of Scientific Thinking in Healthcare
July 29, 2016The greatest achievements are often accomplished from scientific thinking. Scientific thinking can be applied to any industry, especially...
A Simple Kaizen Event Roadmap
July 28, 2016We’ve written before about the fact that the success of a Kaizen event depends on what happens before, during, and after, with each phase...
A Lean Transformation From a Struggling ED to Top Notch
July 27, 2016Here at KaiNexus, we have some pretty impressive customers and we work with very talented, passionate people every day. One such individual...
How Improvement Software Reinforces the Principles of Lean
July 26, 2016Although the Lean approach to business management was originally developed for, and deployed in the manufacturing sector, it has become...
When Work Is Stressful and Dangerous, Employee Health Suffers
July 25, 2016Between deadlines, working overtime, and pressures from superiors, work can be a high-stress environment. A little bit of stress can be a...
A Dirty Rug Reminds Me Why Employees Love Standard Work
July 22, 2016This summer I got a new outdoor rug for my patio. A couple of days ago, I noticed that my cleanup approach of sweeping wasn’t really...
Does Your Organization Have a Safety Net for DMAIC?
October 11, 2023The DMAIC improvement cycle is the cornerstone of many successful continuous improvement programs. It is a repeatable, reliable process...
The Lean LEGO Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Story
June 22, 2023LEGO bricks have been an iconic toy for decades. I grew up playing with them and I know that my children will grow up playing with them as...
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