Improving the Way We Manage [Preview of "Lean Hospitals" 3rd Ed.]

Our Mark Graban has been with the KaiNexus team for five years now. In that time, he's released the 2nd edition (2011) and now the 3rd...

Gemba Walks: Your Search for 85% of Your Organization's Problems

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a towering intellect whose thinking about improvement affected a quality revolution of gargantuan significance on...

Everything You Need to Know From The Health Standards Twitter Chat

Did you catch the Health Standards (@HealthStandards) Twitter chat about Lean on Friday? 

In case you don't know, Twitter chats are an open...

What Sets a Lean Organization Apart?

The business methodology of Lean is often used in the same sentence as other formal business models such as Six Sigma, TPS (Toyota...

Lean Leadership: A Delicate Balancing Act

We 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...

Creating a Lean Foundation in Professional Services Firms [WEBINAR]

At KaiNexus, our mission is to spread continuous improvement and we love speaking to others who share the same goal. We believe that ...

What You Need to Know About Catchball [FAQs]

There are many tools in the continuous improvement toolkit. Everything from Gemba walks to value stream maps help organizations accelerate...

A Study of a Successful Lean Management System [Webinar on Demand]

Michael Lombard, MBA, PMP is an accomplished leader in Lean Healthcare, currently serving as the Senior Director of Operational Excellence...

Customer Value - The Ultimate Goal of a Lean Organization

It is a common misconception that the elimination of waste is the prime objective for Lean organizations. This isn’t one bit surprising....