What "Respect for People" Actually Looks Like on a Tuesday Morning
April 23, 2026Every Lean practitioner can recite the two pillars: continuous improvement and respect for people. Ask them what continuous improvement...
Your Employees' Ideas Aren't Disappearing -- They're Being Ignored by Your System
April 16, 2026One operations director, describing what happened to frontline ideas at his organization before they overhauled their approach, put it...
What Your CI Program Loses When Executives Delegate Change Leadership
April 6, 2026Most executives don't oppose continuous improvement. They support it -- in the way they support good nutrition or regular exercise. They...
Finally, a Simpler Way to Do Continuous Improvement: Just Put On These Glasses
April 2, 2026For years, we at KaiNexus have been building software to help organizations manage continuous improvement and operational excellence....
Stop Calling It Soft: The Human Edge in Operational Excellence
March 31, 2026Today's post is written by Kathy Miller, MAPP, MBA, who we are thrilled to have as a keynote speaker at our upcoming KaiNexicon User...
Are You Really Backsliding -- or Was Continuous Improvement Never Deeply Adopted?
March 30, 2026One of the most common questions in the Ask Us Anything series sounds like this:
"We were doing great with Lean, and now we are...
Should Improvement Be Mandatory? Reflections From 30+ Ask Us Anything Episodes
March 9, 2026One of the most persistent questions across the Ask Us Anything series was deceptively simple:
Should continuous improvement be...
Why Experienced Leaders Resist Lean — and What Actually Works
March 2, 2026When Greg Jacobson and I recorded the first Ask Us Anything webinar, we were just trying to clear a backlog of questions. We had no idea...
Ten Years of Questions: The Ask Us Anything Insights That Still Hold Up
February 24, 2026Ten years of answering questions from CI practitioners taught us that the hardest problems aren't technical -- they're human. Leadership...
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