As a senior advisor to KaiNexus and somebody who has been a member of the team since 2011, it’s been amazing to see how the company has grown and developed. What started as a relatively simple online Kaizen application, the…
In some of the major Lean transformation stories (in manufacturing in healthcare) usually include stories about some percentage of managers, doctors, or employees who chose to leave the organization. This is often a badge of honor of sorts. Sometimes, those people get labeled as "concrete heads" (I term I think we shouldn't use, as I've blogged about).
Is this really the right way to view things?
I often get asked a question along the lines of "So, what exactly do you do?" Today, I give some updates about my various projects and partnerships, including continuing with KaiNexus (with a different title) and a new partnership with Value Capture.
Tomorrow, with the entire KaiNexus team, I'm going to visit the Toyota truck plant in San Antonio, the plant referred TMMTX. The 15 of us will be there in closed toed shoes and all other required clothing to learn about the Toyota Production System, Kaizen (continuous improvement), and Lean.
I've blogged about it on the KaiNexus blog. I asked the KaiNexus team to say a little bit about what they hope to learn in the visit and you can read their comments it here.
In this post, I share a 24-minute tour preview webinar that I put together, links to past tour blog posts, and more.
Previous Episodes (Full List): Click to visually browse episodes For easy access to any Podcast, use the forwarding URL: leanblog.org/X where X is the episode number. This text list is from the old version of the podcast’s main blog page.…
Every month or two, Greg Jacobson, MD and I have an “Ask Us Anything” video discussion with questions submitted by members of our KaiNexus community. You can register for our next episode, number 14, which we’ll hold on August 15th.…
I've produced A LOT of content about Kaizen and continuous improvement over the past 11 years, including podcasts and webinars. Somebody asked me to build a "curriculum" and a sequence of podcasts and webinars for people to watch as a way of getting educated about this approach. So this post is an attempt at that...
For one last day, I’m at the 8th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, California. See my notes from Day 1 in yesterday’s blog post. Follow on Twitter using the hashtag #HCSummit2017. If you’re here at the event, please…
I helped present a webinar with Dr. Greg Jacobson, the CEO and co-founder of KaiNexus on Tuesday May 16: Taking Improvement Boards Digital: How Leading Companies are Improving Visual Management We just posted a 7-minute podcast preview of the topics we’ll…
Here are three audience questions we didn't have time to address after a recent talk that I gave... questions about engaging people in improvement and about how to share and spread improvement ideas broadly.
Dr. Greg Jacobson and I have been co-hosting a live video broadcast called “Ask Us Anything” for a while. We take questions that have been submitted by our KaiNexus community and spend about 30 minutes answering them and discussing. You…
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 for KaiNexus is produce and host our monthly free webinar series. You can view all…