

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.
Episodes
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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.

Jul 22, 2015 • 56min
Jamie Flinchbaugh Improvement Behaviors
Originally Aired: March 17, 2015
Hosted by Mark Graban, Guest is Jamie Flinchbaugh
How To Drive Improvement Behaviors To Increase Performance Gains
- Learn how the improvement behaviors of your staff directly determine your results
- See why most leaders fail to get the behaviors they need from employees
- Learn how to design an actionable strategy for deliberate behavior change - on any budget
Visit http://www.kainexus.com/webinars to see slides and more

Jul 22, 2015 • 60min
System Wide Improvement Jason Coons
Presented June 15, 2015 by Mark Graban & Jason Coons
See slides
http://info.kainexus.com/continuous-improvement/culture-of-continuous-
improvement/a-system-wide-approach-to-driving-process-improvement/webi
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A System-Wide Approach to Driving Process Improvement
Get actionable advice from lessons learned in Kettering Health
Network's 5 year process improvement journey
Hear how Kettering's system-wide approach to projects, training, and
daily problem solving led to $2.6 million of financial impact last
year
Learn about KaiNexus, the continuous improvement software platform
that spread continuous improvement by enabling change management and
accountability within the system

Jul 18, 2015 • 59min
How to be an Influential Kaizen Coach Joe Swartz
Presented July 16, 2015 by Mark Graban & Joe Swartz.
Why coaching matters to your organization, leaders, and staff
Practical methods for coaching staff and leaders
How to develop people to be better improvement facilitators
Numerous coaching scenarios and examples from Franciscan St. Francis Health and other organizations and other industries
Key coaching fundamentals used at Franciscan


