Tag: KaiNexus

Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson on Continuous Improvement

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There's a great piece, currently available for free on the HBR website, about continuous improvement: The Culture to Cultivate The author, George Halvorson, is the recently...

A Lack of PDSA Made JCP’s New CEO SOL?

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It's been interesting to follow the rise and fall of former Apple retailing executive Ron Johnson during his less-than-two-year stint as CEO at long-struggling...

KaiNexus Update: Making Improvement Easier in More Industries

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There's been a lot happening since my last update on the blog about KaiNexus, the technology company that "makes improvement easier," where I am...

My Two Upcoming Webinars – on Waste and Kaizen in Healthcare

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I'm going to be giving two free webinars in March that you might be interested in signing up for: Gemba Academy - 8 Wastes in...

Does Al Qaeda Do a Better Job of Sharing Kaizen Ideas...

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I saw an interesting article in The Telegraph: "Revealed: al-Qaeda's 22 tips for dodging drones." Apparently, the Al Qaeda terror network is responding to the...

#LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes – Get Out of the Building

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In his kickoff to the Lean Startup Conference, Eric Ries promised that there was so much content and so many speakers crammed into the...

KaiNexus Education Video #8 — Fast Responses to Ideas

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Here is video #8 in our series of  short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team (see...

Lean Startup Conference Talk – Parallels to Lean Hospital Design

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Although I blog most often about Lean healthcare, I know a good number of my blog readers are from the "Lean Startup" world who...

Archive of Free Webinar – Greg Jacobson, MD on Kaizen for...

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Updated 11/8 to include a link to the recording  and changing the post to past tense. Gregory Jacobson, MD, co-founder and CEO of KaiNexus (disclosure:...

KaiNexus Education Video #7 – No Countermeasure? That’s OK

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Here is the seventh in our series of short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team.  We...

KaiNexus Update – User Badges & Sharing Improvements Widely

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The team at KaiNexus (where I am the "chief improvement officer") is always improving. I want to share a few of these improvements, as...

KaiNexus Education Video #6 – Improve Continually

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Here is the sixth in our series of  short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team.  We...
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