Tag: Kaizen

I've really enjoyed reading the book The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality that was published last year. I think this link will...

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...

Regular readers of the blog will know that one of my favorite topics is "Gaming the Numbers" (or "Gaming the System"). As Brian Joiner so...

On this blog, I write a lot about how to create a "Lean" culture where employees and customers are happy. Engaged employees lead to...

In the Kaizen process, we ask everybody to identify problems (or opportunities) and then to write down an idea that could potentially solve the...

I get a lot of emails from regular readers or people who have just stumbled across my blog. I try to be as helpful...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark shares a video and transcript featuring Steve Jobs discussing the concept of continuous improvement in 1990. He examines how...

I'm happy to be a participating author on "The Lean Edge" blog/site that's hosted by Michael Ballé author of The Gold Mine and other books. Their most recent question...

My life and work takes me to interesting places. In late 2012, I was able to visit Japan for the first time, visiting the...

I enjoy reading the magazine Inc. for my interests in startups and entrepreneurship. There are often examples and case studies that directly reference Lean...

It's been fun attending the annual Lean Transformation Summit (produced by LEI). Today is Day 2. I took some notes from Day 1 and...

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...