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.
Here’s a fun video that I created for KaiNexus, based on this clever flow chart. The answer, most always, is YES! If your employees are human and you really want to improve, you should engage your employees in improving safety,…
Tomorrow afternoon, I’m doing two different webinars that I hope you’ll want to sign up for. Even if you can’t attend live, I’d encourage you to register in advance so you can get links sent to you automatically to view these on…
Today’s post is just something pointing I wrote another article for the LinkedIn “Influencer” series (see my past posts here). The new article is titled: “The Little Difference That Turned “No Ideas” Into “Lots of Ideas.” You can also read…
Today’s post is something I wrote for the KaiNexus blog that was posted yesterday: Anthony Bourdain on Continuous Improvement: Be “Less Awful Every Day” I loved this short clip of Bourdain being interviewed on the Charlie Rose program, talking about…
This Bloomberg Businessweek article caught my eye: “How to Get More Respect From Your Boss With Less Work.” It’s a misleading headline, almost as if it was associated with the wrong article, somehow. But, it’s an interesting read anyway. Researchers…
About two years ago, we produced some short two- to three-minute education videos about Lean, Kaizen, and continuous improvement for KaiNexus. These were intended as short coaching sessions that would be sent to our customers / users and we’ve also…
This week, I’ll be in The Netherlands for the first time since my visit in 2009. I was invited that first time by Marc Rouppe van der Voort to visit St. Elisabeth Hospital (where he worked at the time) and…
Tomorrow, at 1 pm Eastern, Dr. Greg Jacobson and I are giving a KaiNexus-sponsored webinar: Daily Management with KaiNexus: From Huddle Boards to Web-Based Technology I’ll be talking about daily Lean management practices, such as: Strategy deployment Process audits /…
Note: Our next free KaiNexus webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 28: “Daily Management with KaiNexus: From Huddle Boards to Web-Based Technology.” Register today to hear me and Dr. Greg Jacobson share our experiences and stories from our customers. About…
Thanks to Ron Pereira and my other friends at Gemba Academy for interviewing me when I visited their studio a few weeks back. Gemba Academy has amazing online video education products that I highly recommend. Check them out. There are two…
About two years ago, we produced some short two- to three-minute education videos about Lean, Kaizen, and continuous improvement for KaiNexus. These were intended as short coaching sessions that would be sent to our customers / users and we’ve also…
About two years ago, we produced some short two- to three-minute education videos about Lean, Kaizen, and continuous improvement for KaiNexus. These were intended as short coaching sessions that would be sent to our customers / users and we’ve also…
