Hidden Opportunities for Improvement in Manufacturing
December 23, 2020Manufacturing organizations dedicated to continuous improvement look for opportunities to eliminate waste at every juncture. They may spend...
Continuous Improvement Predictions for 2021
December 8, 2020If you think trying to predict anything that will happen in 2021 is insane after what’s happened this year, you have a point. But by...
6 Steps to Improvement in Manufacturing
June 9, 2021One of the most important responsibilities of managers in manufacturing environments is to contain costs. The most obvious cost to...
How to Set Continuous Improvement Goals to See Real Results
October 29, 2020We all identify goals to improve ourselves in some way. Whether our goal is to eat better, exercise more, spend more time with our family,...
Why Simplicity Was Essential for CI at a Nuclear Plant
September 30, 2020The principles of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies originated from manufacturing, but there’s no doubt that they have been...
Continuous Improvement in Financial Services
September 15, 2020When people think of structured continuous improvement methodologies like Lean and Six Sigma, they usually associate it with manufacturing....
10 Leadership Mistakes that Undermine Improvement Efforts
May 12, 2020Leaders that we speak with get very excited about the idea of creating an improvement engine within their organizations. Who doesn’t want a...
What I Learned by Leaving Toyota
November 19, 2019Our 2019 KaiNexicon event in Austin was a tremendous success, thanks to all of our fabulous participants and speakers. Lots of valuable...
Framed to Fit: Why Managers Endorse Ideas
June 5, 2019Dr. Ethan Burris is a Professor of Management and the Chevron Centennial Fellow at the McCombs School of Business at the University of...