KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More

A discussion between Mark Graban, Dr. Greg Jacobson, and Jeff Roussel from KaiNexus, sharing reflections on the recent Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Florida.

In episode #8 of our series, Greg Jacobson, MD & Mark Graban talk about topics including: - Who were you rooting for in the NBA Finals? (fun topic to get started) - What are the ultimate challenges to have a successful Lean Journey? - How is the deployment approach different for a transformational change vs incremental change? - To influence change in a hierarchical organization like government, w...

My friend and fellow blogger Katie Anderson had a chance to actually visit the gemba at Toyota Memorial Hospital. See her blog post that’s part of her series: Japan Gemba Visit: Toyota Memorial Hospital – Part 4: Set challenging goals & engage patients and staff in continuous improvement.

In episode #7 of our series, Greg & Mark talk about: - Lean and Kaizen in manufacturing vs other settings, such as retail and healthcare - How to help leaders change their behaviors and managerial approaches when it's out of sync with Lean? - How does pointing fingers and blaming affect morale? - What's the role of Change Management? See more webinars at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars

Presented by Karen Skinner & David Skinner, Hosted by KaiNexus & Mark Graban on May 17, 2016 Learn more at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars In this webinar, you will learn: Trends in service delivery innovation for professional service firms How Lean can support critical innovations in pricing, project management, and knowledge management How a culture of continuous improvement can support innovat...

In this webinar, you will learn: The value of a "behavior based," rather than "tools based," management system The ideal Lean behaviors that drive sustainable results How to find balance between enterprise alignment, continuous improvement, and cultural enablement - and the Lean behaviors that drive all three How to develop scientific thinking through the Toyota Kata approach, and how this leads t...

In episode #6 of our series, Greg & I talk about: - Pitfalls in continuous improvement efforts - Finding the balance of flow efficiency and resource efficiency - The role of leaders in creating a culture of improvement - Lean and ergonomics - Managing lots of improvement ideas - Searching for jobs using Lean principles

- Some of the defining characteristics of successful Lean leaders - Three basic assumptions that differentiate Lean CEOs and leaders - Pivotal moments for Lean leaders and their organizations In this webinar, author, speaker, and consultant Jacob Stoller will dive into the three basic assumptions about information process, and people that differentiate top lean leaders from conventional business l...

In part 5 of our series, Greg & I talk about: - getting technical people involved in Lean - engaging associates in problem solving - coaching - leaders and huddle boards - data vs story telling - translating improvement into dollars and results - lessons learned about starting a blog or starting a company See our playlist "Ask Us Anything" for the entire series.

From a podcast on February 16, 2016 with Mark Graban & Greg Jacobson How To Get Buy-In For Improvement In this webinar, you will learn: Reasons why people don’t “buy in” to change How leaders can better understand the causes of that apparent resistance to change Strategies that can be used to increase buy-in for staff, managers, and executives. People often complain that their employees (or their...

Yes, Lean can help improve both efficiency and quality. At least he got that right, instead of incorrectly saying that Lean is only about efficiency or productivity or cost. But, the error is in not thinking that Lean and the Toyota Production System are not also methods for continuous improvement and innovation. We have many KaiNexus customers who demonstrate daily how creative and innovative the...

In part 4 of our series, Greg & I talk about the NEJM article about "Medical Taylorism", kaizen vs kaizen blitz, getting leaders involved in kaizen, keeping staff motivated, and more. See our playlist "Ask Us Anything" for the entire series.

... it's Management. Post by Mark Graban from Jan 18 2016

To see the webinar: http://info.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/practical-problem-solving/webinar Using Practical Problem Solving to Spread Kaizen: Going Slow to Go Fast In this webinar, you will learn: The origins of the "Practical Problem Solving" approach and the connections to PDSA How a formal problem solving methodology can give a big boost to your Lean or continuous improvement efforts...

... Improvement. A blog post by Maggie Millard: http://blog.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/innovation/a-short-list-of-easy-and-effective-ways-to-spread-innovation

See this blog post by Mark Graban: http://blog.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/practical-problem-solving/why-you-should-learn-about-practical-problem-solving-in-this-webinar/webinar/why To register for the webinar: http://info.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/practical-problem-solving/webinar/signup

This appeared as a blog post titled "Happiness Is Not The Goal Of Employee Engagement Activities" by Maggie Millard http://blog.kainexus.com/employee-engagement/employee-engagement-activities/happiness-is-not-the-goal-of-employee-engagement-activities

We recently hosted a webinar called "Ask Us Anything" in which we asked people to, well, ask us anything. It was so popular that we hardly made a dent in the number of awesome questions everyone submitted. So, we've been answering more questions in a series of videos (see our playlist: https://youtu.be/GHnUsV_UYoo?list=PLscA9mcmPxeDXL5HdKKDosfXFoc4X3STO Watch this recording to hear us talk about:...

Webinar - How Leadership Commitment and A Systematic Approach Spread Improvement A webinar hosted by KaiNexus, presented by Karen Kiel-Rosser, Vice President / Chief Quality Officer at Mary Greeley Medical Center and Ron Smith, a Process Improvement Coordinator. Does your organization struggle with engaging everybody in daily continuous improvement? Is it difficult to figure out how to combine for...

This is part 2 of our webinar Q&A series, with Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson. Part 1 was released as Episode #18 of this podcast series.

When I first joined the KaiNexus team in 2011, we were just coming to market and had no paying customers. The vision of our co-founders, Dr. Greg Jacobson and Matt Paliulis, was compelling and they had taken significant steps toward bringing KaiNexus into the world. Last month, we had our first ever KaiNexus User Conference in Austin. We've grown to the point where we had about 30 customers join u...

Do you have any burning questions about continuous improvement? What about leadership, or employee engagement, or how to manage innovation and improvement? Curious about what continuous improvement software is, or what it does? Tune in to this webinar for answers. In feedback about past webinars, people often comment that there should be "more time for Q&A." In the spirit of the popular "Ask Me An...

Topics: - how to discuss ideas constructively with employees - how to prioritize ideas (and if that's even necessary) - how to assign responsibility for improvement work - how to create time for improvement - how to track improvements

In this episode, Maggie Millard and Dr. Greg Jacobson, tell a story about a colleague of Greg's who was excited to hear the word "Kaizen" based on past experience.

http://blog.kainexus.com From September 2015 Who’s Responsible for Improvement Management? posted by Greg Jacobson