Gemba Walks: Your Search for 85% of Your Organization's Problems
June 8, 2016Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a towering intellect whose thinking about improvement affected a quality revolution of gargantuan significance on...
Lean Leadership: A Delicate Balancing Act
January 26, 2017We are lucky enough to have the opportunity to chat with people who lead Lean organizations all of the time. One question we like to ask...
What You Need to Know About Catchball [FAQs]
May 18, 2016There are many tools in the continuous improvement toolkit. Everything from Gemba walks to value stream maps help organizations accelerate...
5 Traits of Continuous Improvement Leaders That YOU Need To Develop
April 17, 2019We’ve written extensively about the importance of viewing continuous improvement as everyone’s job, and why a bottom-up approach to...
Why It's So Hard to Change Minds to Spread Improvement
February 11, 2020Frustrated that you can't expand the improvement culture beyond an initial small group?
Having trouble convincing senior leadership to...
Continuous Improvement Management Advice from 6 Fortune Cookies
October 11, 2023Let me just start by saying that my friends at Chinatown make some of the best Chinese food in Austin. If you can get there for Dim Sum...
How The 5 Whys Can Help You to Set Better Goals
June 22, 2023We’ve talked before about how the technique of the 5 Whys can be useful for root cause identification, but did you know it is also an...
3 Expert Approaches to Getting Started with Continuous Improvement
November 23, 2015-Three KaiNexus customers from two very different industries shared strategies for jump-starting continuous improvement at the recent 2015...
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