Tag: KaiNexus

#TBT: Podcast Interview with Dr. Greg Jacobson of @KaiNexus from 2011...

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It's been just over six years since I joined the team at KaiNexus, serving in various capacities over that time. As I like to say, even though I don't work full time with the company, I have a full commitment to the company, the team, and their approach. The company has grown by leaps and bounds, adding customers not just in healthcare, but in other industries. You can read more about our aggregate customer results here. Recently, our customers just crossed the threshold of a combined one million hours of labor time saved, in addition to over $250 million in financial impact... in addition to quality, safety, customer and employee satisfaction improvements. Back in 2011, I interviewed the CEO and co-founder of KaiNexus, Dr. Greg Jacobson:

Webinar Recording: Digital Improvement Boards & KaiNexus

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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...

Free Webinar on Lean and Zen Today; How We Improve at...

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Today, Mark Graban and KaiNexus host Kevin Meyer in presenting a webinar about Lean and Zen. Also, we try to practice what we preach about Kaizen at KaiNexus, as we describe in a blog post and podcast episode.

Free Webinar Recording: How to Coach for Creativity & Service Excellence

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I'm happy to be playing the role of host for a free webinar being held next Tuesday, March 28... presented by Karyn Ross, co-author of the Shingo Award-winning book The Toyota Way to Service Excellence. Her webinar is titled: "How to Coach for Creativity & Service Excellence"

A Webinar on Thursday, #PracticingLean Summary & #Kaizen Thoughts

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This post will point you to a few things you might be interested in: a free webinar this Thursday, some thoughts on Kaizen and "low-hanging fruit," and a summary of the book Practicing Lean.

Join Us For Another “Ask Us Anything” Broadcast on Tuesday

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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...

You Don’t Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement by Waiting Until...

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When I talk to organizations about Kaizen, or continuous improvement, there's far too much self-defeating talk, where people say things like: "We're not going to try this Kaizen process because our culture isn't ready yet."

Better Metrics & “Understanding Variation” – An Important Topic for Healthcare

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My favorite book, as I've written about before, is not a "Lean book" -- it's Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler, PhD. It might look like a book about statistics...

Free Webinar: How to Improve End-of-Year Improvement Reporting

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Update: See the bottom of the post for the webinar recording. I get to talk with many people who are leading improvement efforts in different...

#TBT: Part 2, A Year of KaiNexus Webinars, July through December,...

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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...

#TBT: A Year of @KaiNexus Webinars, January through June, on Various...

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One of the things I do for KaiNexus is produce and host our monthly free webinar series. You can view all of the recordings...

Free Webinar: How a Hospital Spreads Continuous Improvement with @KaiNexus

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On Wednesday at 1 pm ET, I hosted another free webinar in our KaiNexus Webinar series. The presenter was Tania Lyon, Director, Organizational Performance Improvement at...
"The Mistakes That Make Us" Receives the Shingo Award!Learn More
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