Improving the Patient Experience with an Inspirational Kaizen
February 16, 2016Here at KaiNexus, we love it when our customers share with us examples of the improvement work that they are tracking and managing through...
6 Big Limitations of Huddle Boards
July 21, 2016We applaud any steps that an organization makes to ensure that every day involves efforts related to continuous improvement. One approach...
Incremental Improvement and the Average Joe
October 11, 2023Imagine that on New Year’s Day, Average Joe decides he needs to get healthier. All he needs to do is: quit smoking, stop drinking, run 3...
29 Powerful Continuous Improvement Survey Questions
June 5, 2023We talk to a lot of organizations about rapid continuous improvement, and every single one of them wants it. Why not? What’s not to love...
Incremental Improvement: Not Just for the Factory Floor.
September 28, 2015If you do a bit of reading about improvement methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, or Toyota Kata, you might come...
How Catchball is (a bit) Like Parenting
September 9, 2015When my daughter was in elementary school, every weekday morning, I would drive her to the daycare center located on the site of the...
Lean Coffee: A Radically Effective Approach for Discussion
February 11, 2020We’ve probably all gone to conferences that have the same, relatively stale format. Most often, a series of speakers gets up on stage for...
How a Checklist Almost Thwarted the First Moon Landing
August 28, 2015Checklists are a great way to ensure standard work - especially in a process that has many steps, or for doing work that’s mission...
Do Spreadsheets Work For Continuous Improvement?
July 21, 2016Managing improvement work is hard. We often find ourselves constantly fighting fires, leaving us little time to improve our own improvement...