
KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More
Hosted by Mark Graban · KaiNexus
4.7from 31 ratings
- 483
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More
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.
- Publisher
- KaiNexus
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Jul 2015
- Latest episode
- 22 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 483 episodes have a transcript.

22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Continuous Improvement Programs Don't Get Funded (52 characters)

17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Preview: Why Great CI Programs Don't Get Funded (and What to Do About It)

18 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
[Webinar] Beyond the Voice of the Customer: Richer Signals for Continuous Improvement
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Why Continuous Improvement Programs Don't Get Funded (52 characters)
Published 22 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So even though the work is valuable, a lot of that value just isn't obvious on the surface. And so to me, that leads to a disconnect. The value of improvement exists, but it doesn't necessarily translate. And so... when CI champions go to talk to their executives, the executives ask what I think is an extremely reasonable question. They'll say, what are we actually getting from all of this improvement work that we're doing? And most of the time, the answer that they get is complicated. Most of the time when Our CI champions try to explain the value to the executives. It involves things like spreadsheets and manual data. […]
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- Jeff Roussel
- Annette Behrensmeyer
- Volker Probst
- Anne Frewin
- Karen Martin
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Who hosts KaiNexus: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, and More?
Mark Graban host the show. Published by KaiNexus.
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