Tag: KaiNexus

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.

How KaiNexus is Different Than “Collaborative Ideation” Software

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There are many articles written about collaborative "ideation" systems (sometimes referred as "crowdsourcing") - web and software systems that allow ideas to bubble up...

Chapter 1 of “Healthcare Kaizen” Available in Spanish

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I wish I could attend in person, but I'll be presenting, via recorded video, to a Lean healthcare conference in Spain in September, talking...

For Real Improvement, You Need Honesty & Transparency, Not Anonymity

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This announcement caught my eye recently: "New site lets you tell your boss anything, anonymously." A startup's website allows you to send anonymous ideas or...

New @KaiNexus “Explainer Video” – With 3 Use Cases

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In the "Lean Startup" parlance, our startup KaiNexus is not going into an existing market - we are working to develop a new market...

KaiNexus Gives People a Voice

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I was recently at a conference and the microphone struck me... it looks an awful lot like our KaiNexus logo (or I see our...

Are Suggestion Boxes Really Going Away? What Say Amazon?

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Last week, I found and read an article, "Whatever happened to the company suggestion box?," that makes some really great points about the problems...

KaiNexus Updates – White Paper and Customer Videos

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I've been busy over the past year working with the startup KaiNexus. Our technology is now being used (or in the process of going...

Excited to Meet Masaaki Imai Today in Seattle

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Today is an exciting day for me, as I'll get to meet a famed Kaizen guru  - Masaaki Imai. We are in Seattle for...

Podcast #149 – Gregory Jacobson, MD, CEO of KaiNexus on Kaizen...

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Listen My guest for episode #149 is Gregory Jacobson, MD, the co-founder and CEO at KaiNexus. We'll be talking about his early work with Kaizen...

Update on KaiNexus – Making Improvement Easier in New Ways &...

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It's been about a year since I started working with a software startup KaiNexus. We've made a lot of progress in that year, refining...

Preview of the KaiNexus iPhone App – making improvement easier, anywhere

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KaiNexus has an initial v 1.0 iPhone app that's about ready to be submitted to Apple! It's been an exciting past few months at KaiNexus,...

KaiNexus Education Video #5 – Moving Beyond Suggestion Boxes

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