

KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More
KaiNexus
We deliver practical insights and real-world strategies for Lean, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence. Through lessons from KaiNexus webinars and conversations with customers, improvement leaders, and team members, each episode explores what it takes to build a resilient culture of Continuous Improvement. Learn how organizations engage employees, strengthen problem-solving capability, and sustain meaningful operational results across industries. Whether you're new to CI or leading major transformation, this podcast offers tools and perspectives you can put to work immediately.
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Sep 19, 2015 • 4min
Building the Fit Organization (Dan Markovitz)
We’re really looking forward to the webinar that Dan Markovitz will be presenting on October 13, based on his new book Building the Fit Organization. We hope you’ll join us - register today at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars.

Sep 12, 2015 • 56min
Bridging the Gap: How to Turn Ideas into Improvements
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From September 2015
Making Time for For Continuous Improvement
Hosted By: Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson
In this webinar, we will share proven techniques that help you and your organization bridge the gap between getting those ideas for improvement, and actually making measurable change.
The dangers of neglecting to follow through on employee improvement ideas
Techniques for capturing more ideas for improvement
How to coach people to implement more ideas
The metrics that matter and how to measure them
The value of sharing improvements

Sep 7, 2015 • 6min
Surprising That Suggestion Boxes Fail?
Read this post:
http://www.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/resources-for-continuous-improvement/continuous-improvement-podcast
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Aug 28, 2015 • 59min
Making Time for For Continuous Improvement
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From August 2015
Making Time for For Continuous Improvement
Duration: 1 hour
Making_Time_for_CI_Webinar_CoverTopics: Leadership, Culture of Continuous Improvement
Hosted By: Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson
Learn about how you can make more time for continuous improvement for yourself and your staff by using continuous improvement software to:
Empower employees
Streamline communication
Increase efficiency
Improve visibility

Aug 23, 2015 • 5min
Blog Post on Frankensystems
From the KaiNexus blog, a post by Maggie Millard: Are You Creating a Monster with Your Continuous Improvement Technology?
http://blog.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement-software/creating-a-monster-with-continuious-improvement-technology

Aug 16, 2015 • 60min
Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous
From June 2014
Leadership Behaviors that Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Watch this free webinar to learn:
Leadership_behaviors_WebinarWhat you should be doing to create a culture of continuous improvement
How to encourage the identification, testing, evaluation, and sharing of improvements
Best practices for collaborating on improvement
When to get involved… and when to get out of the way

Aug 9, 2015 • 8min
From the Blog, Practicing Lean
A blog post from August 4, 2015. For the original post visit http://blog.kainexus.com/improvement-disciplines/lean/practicing-lean

Aug 2, 2015 • 59min
ROI of Continuous Improvement
From March 2014
What's the ROI of Continuous Improvement?
Duration: 1 hour
Topics: ROI, Continuous Improvement
Hosted By: Greg Jacobson and Mark Graban
ROIofcontinuousimprovementHow to measure the ROI of continuous improvement
How to communicate that ROI with your executives
Hidden places to look for additional ROI
The role of software in achieving, calculating, and communicating ROI

Jul 26, 2015 • 59min
How Personal Growth Plans Support Continuous Improvement
Originally Aired: May 12, 2015
Length: 1 hour
Hosted By: Mark Graban (KaiNexus VP of Customer Success)
Presenter: Norman Bodek
In this webinar:
Lessons from Norman Bodek's 80+ visits to Japan
The "9th Waste" of Lean
The role of managers in creating a culture of continuous improvement
The importance of personal growth plans and self reliance
How the "Harada Method" furthers these goals of self reliance and Kaizen
Join us for a very special conversation with a Lean legend, Norman Bodek. Norman worked with, translated, and published the books of Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo, credited as creators of the Toyota Production System.

Jul 26, 2015 • 53min
How to Spread Continuous Improvement
Originally Aired: April 14, 2015 at 1p EDT
See the webinar archive, videos, and slides at http://www.kainexus.com/webinars
Listen to this webinar now to learn:
How to spread continuous improvement throughout your organization
Why it's important to spread improvement ideas beyond the team that discovered them
Real life examples of how organizations overcome common barriers to spread
It's one thing for continuous improvement to thrive within your team of improvement specialists... it's a whole different ballgame when you're trying to spread it throughout your organization. Attend this webinar to hear our expert tips for spreading sustainable continuous improvement.


