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...
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...
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...
Resolutions to Help Achieve Your Process Improvement Goals in 2019
January 14, 2019We saved this post for a couple of weeks into the New Year to give everyone a chance to get their exercise/weight loss/financial planning...
The Bedrock Principles of Continuous Quality Management
November 2, 2018Continuous quality management (CQM) does not look the same in every organization. Some practice CQM as part of a business management...
How Digital Idea Boards Accelerate Innovation
October 16, 2018We’ve written before about the reasons that traditional suggestion boxes rarely result in lasting positive change. The biggest problem is...
Avoid These 6 Missteps to Achieve Continuous Improvement Goals
June 5, 2023We like to keep things positive in this blog, but once in a while, it makes sense to explore the roadblocks that organizations can face...
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