KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — 3 Reasons Kaizen Boards Often Disappoint
A post by Jeff Roussel, read by Mark Graban Every time we walk into a facility and see a Kaizen board, we are reminded about the excitement and sense of …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — How to Increase Your Odds of Sustaining Innovation
When I sat down to write about sustaining innovations, the word that popped into my mind was “entropy.” While entropy is a scientific term related to the degradation of the …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — How to Lead an Improvement Culture without Being a Jerk
A common mistake companies make when rolling out a new culture of continuous improvement is to fail to provide leadership training to the people leading it. When you’re responsible for …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — How Workflow Software Accelerates Improvement
Once organizations realize the value of daily continuous improvement and learn to leverage employee ideas for innovation, they often turn their focus on how to accelerate the pace of improvement. …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — 5 Ways to Strengthen a Kaizen Culture
There’s an interesting thing about the definition of the word culture – it shares a root with the word “cultivate,” which means, “to foster the growth of; to improve by …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — Strategy Deployment Fail – Don’t Let This Happen to You
Earlier in the day, at one of her company’s regular monthly meetings, she decided to offer a $100 bill to the first employee who could name all four of the …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — The Importance of an End-to-End Lean Journey
A blog post by Matt Banna Think about all the points of contact that customers go through with your company throughout their time in your sales pipeline and then as …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — Achieve Performance Excellence…
Post by Sam Turner: “Achieve Performance Excellence with Baldrige: The Framework You’ve Been Needing”
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — Is a Kaizen Event Right for the Job?
Kaizen events are a big deal. They pull people away from their regular jobs for a number of days; they require training, leadership must make necessary resources available, and internal …
KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Podcast — Everyday Examples of the 8 Wastes of Lean
A blog post from 12/30/16 by Mark Graban Toyota famously changed automobile manufacturing forever by focusing on continuous improvement, particularly on the never-ending process of waste elimination. Over the years, …