Tag: KaiNexus

Better Metrics & “Understanding Variation” – An Important Topic for Healthcare

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My favorite book, as I've written about before, is not a "Lean book" -- it's Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler, PhD. It might look like a book about statistics...

Free Webinar: How to Improve End-of-Year Improvement Reporting

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Update: See the bottom of the post for the webinar recording. I get to talk with many people who are leading improvement efforts in different...

#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December,...

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Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year.... Again, one of the things I do...

#TBT: A Year of @KaiNexus Webinars, January through June, on Various...

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One of the things I do for KaiNexus is produce and host our monthly free webinar series. You can view all of the recordings...

Free Webinar: How a Hospital Spreads Continuous Improvement with @KaiNexus

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On Wednesday at 1 pm ET, I hosted another free webinar in our KaiNexus Webinar series. The presenter was Tania Lyon, Director, Organizational Performance Improvement at...

What We at KaiNexus (and Our Customers) Believe About People &...

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We've been having a great time at the KaiNexus User Conference. Check out key moments and tweets at the hashtag #KaiNexusUC16 on Twitter. To kick...

Practicing What We Preach at KaiNexus, Learning & Sharing

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This week is our 2nd annual KaiNexus User Conference, in Austin... with customers and those who are about to become customers joining us for...

Celebrating & Sharing Continuous Improvement at Mary Greeley Medical Center

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I really enjoyed spending the last two days at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa the last two days. On Tuesday, there was event...

A Webinar on Lean, PMOs, and Innovation

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Reminder -- As I blogged about before, I'm doing a webinar on Thursday, sponsored by Cardinal Health, on Lean and healthcare supply chains. Register...

The City of Denton’s Lean Journey & Upcoming Webinar

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I've gotten to know to know Harry Kenworthy (pictured at left) over the past few years after meeting at a conference (the Northeast L.E.A.N....

Asking Jamie Flinchbaugh – What’s Going Well with Lean? What’s a...

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Joining me for Episode #261 is an old friend and trusted mentor, Jamie Flinchbaugh. Among other things, he's the co-author of the book The Hitchhiker's Guide...

Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Sticky Notes to Sell Cars or...

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As I occasionally do, I've written blog post for KaiNexus: For the Want of a System Better Than a Sticky Note, a Car Sale Was...