When People Start Sharing Their Amazing Covid Vaccination Improvements
The past two weeks, I've been part of an initiative that's like a social-benefit startup effort within a startup.…
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Will “Kaizen” Get the Buffalo Bills to Next Year’s Super Bowl?
I'm not a Buffalo Bills fan (a.k.a. "The Bills Mafia"), but I did attend one game at what was then called Rich…
Commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Keep Moving Forward
Let's commemorate Monday's national holiday for Dr. King with a look back at my post from 2012...
A Lean Lesson…
“Adopting and Adapting” TPS to the Raymond Lean Management System
My guest for Episode #390 is Keith Ingels, the TPS (Toyota Production System) Manager for Raymond Corporation…
Join Me Tomorrow for a Panel Discussion on the “Future of CI in a Changing…
Thanks to Keivan Zokaei and SA Partners for inviting me to be part of a webinar panel discussion that's being held…
I Learned a New Word for Our Continuous Improvement Vocabulary — Maybe
Almost to a fault, the Lean methodology includes a lot of Japanese words, including kaizen, a word used to…
[Recording] Another Panel Discussion Webinar on Real Continuous Improvement in…
In June, I moderated a panel discussion webinar (as part of the KaiNexus series) on the theme of virtual…
[Recording] Panel Discussion Webinar on Virtual Improvement
It's a big webinar week for me, as I presented two (here and here) and I moderated a new webinar in the KaiNexus…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: May 22, 2020
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this...
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Customer…
Podcast #370 — Edward Blackman on Combining Behavioral Science with…
Joining me for Episode #370 is Edward Blackman, the founder and managing partner of Kelda Consulting. He has…
Song Parody: If I Had a Million Kaizens
I was cleaning out my hard drive (I hesitate to call that "5S-ing")... moving some files to an external disk and…
Improvements in Walking and Hospital Covid-19 Incident Response Teams
In this post, I'd like to share two posts from the KaiNexus Blog.
Walking More Safely
I wrote this post for…
Continuing to Continuously Improve My Online Scheduling Process
For years, I've scheduled many phone calls and web meetings. That's only increased during this current Covid-19…
Kaizens at the Grocery Store (and the Drug Store) [COVID-19]
I wrote a blog post for KaiNexus that's the first in a series that we're going to run about "Opportunities for…
Is Your Hospital Punishing or Encouraging People’s Necessary Creativity…
This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate…
Must Dos and Nice to Haves: Performance Reviews and Continuous Improvement?
There's a very well known cartoon that you might have seen where a caveman offers round wheels to other cavemen…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 17, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.…
From Japan: “We were not always a Kaizen company” — Surprising?
Here is something brief that I posted on LinkedIn while I was in Japan recently, but I also wanted to share it…