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KaiNexus: Supporting a Culture of Continuous Improvement

KaiNexus is a platform designed to support continuous improvement—but tools alone never create culture. This archive brings together blog posts, reflections, and webinar conversations exploring how KaiNexus is used to reinforce leadership behaviors, psychological safety, daily improvement, and learning across healthcare, manufacturing, and knowledge work.

I share these reflections both as a practitioner and as a Senior Advisor to KaiNexus, focusing on what helps organizations build better systems—not solely on software features.

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....

Jamie Flinchbaugh on Lean Zealots, What’s Working, and What’s Not

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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...
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