Tag: KaiNexus

What I’m Reading: Diner Muda, No Blame at Etsy, Toyota Treats...

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In case you missed it, see Saturday's post: "Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories." As I occasionally do, today's post is...

Video: What is Kaizen?

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I made this short three-minute video for KaiNexus where I try to succinctly answer the question, "What is Kaizen?" Click the thumbnail below to view...

Webinar Recording: What to Do When you Have Lots of Employee...

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At KaiNexus, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have been doing new webinars each month (see the library here). Our most recent one was hosted...

What People Say is Their “Biggest Challenge Related to Innovation and...

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Yesterday's post was about some of our work at KaiNexus and today's post is hosted over on the KaiNexus Blog: Challenges to Innovation and Improvement In...

Continuously Improving our KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinars

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For the past few years, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have worked closely together to create and deliver our continuous improvement webinars. We try...

My Personal Kaizen on Scheduling Meetings – Fewer Emails and Less...

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One of the key aspects of the Kaizen process is that we SHARE completed improvements with others. That's a key principle that Joe Swartz and...

Cleaning out the Backlog: Krafcik, Email, Lincoln, Leadership, Humility, Patient Falls

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As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs and share some articles that caught my eye recently but...

Podcast #201 – The KaiNexus WorkOut Process at Mary Greeley Medical...

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Listen: Joining me for episode #201 are Ron Smith, a Process Improvement Coordinator/Lean Facilitator at Mary Greeley Medical Center (in Iowa) and Suz Kaprich, a consultant...

A Few Recent Articles by (and a Podcast with) Mark Graban:...

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Here are a few articles (and a podcast) that I either wrote and had published recently or was interviewed for. Lean Management Journal - Lean...

New @KaiNexus Website, New Blog, & Free Improvement Webinars

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In my last post about KaiNexus in February, I gave an update about our funding, new CEO, and other changes. We now have a newly...

My Comments on #Lean Healthcare in These Challenging Times

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Thanks to Dodge Communications for interviewing me for their blog: "Improving healthcare--there's no instant pudding." I was, of course, citing the late great Dr. W....

What I’ve Been Reading Lately: Not Doing Kaizen, Engaged Sailors, Etc.

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Every once in a while, I have too many browser windows open and it slows my computer down. That's when I dump a bunch...