Kaizen Camp Blog
Kaizen Camp: Melbourne
Join us May 20-21 in beautiful Melbourne, Australia, as Modus Cooperandi and Lasting Benefits will be hosting Kaizen Camp: Melbourne at the Telstra Conference Center. Kaizen Camp™ is an unconference. It’s about learning, creating, and building value by discussing the future of work, Lean Principles, agile methodologies, systems thinking, problem-solving, the thought leadership of people like Deming, Ackoff, [...]
Kaizen Camp Seattle: 2013
Join us July 30-31 as Modus Cooperandi will be hosting its third annual Kaizen Camp: Seattle on the beautiful grounds of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture.Kaizen Camp™ is an unconference. It’s about learning, creating, and building value by discussing Lean Principles, agile methodologies, systems thinking, problem-solving, the thought leadership of people like Deming, Ackoff, [...]
The Face of Kaizen Camp Episode 3: Fisher Qua From Washington Health Foundation
Fisher Qua, Director of Health 3.0 for the Washington Health Foundation, joins Jim for a conversation about continuous improvement in farming, business, and life.
The Face of Kaizen Camp Episode 2: Tiffany Overton from Seattle Children’s Hospital
Tiffany Overton from Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine joins Jim Benson for a Kaizen Chat. She discusses continuous improvement at Children’s Hospital, providing real-world examples of improvement and some tools like Kata to make it happen. Tiffany on Kaizen Camp: “It’s priceless when the answers you’ve been searching for on your [...]
The Face of Kaizen Camp Episode 1: Chat w/ Adam Yuret
Adam is a principle consultant at Context Driven Agility in Seattle, Washington. His clients have included Fortune 500 companies, but much of his practice focuses on non-profits. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamYuret. In this video he joins Jim to discuss kaizen, best practices, and the value of diverse ideas. Transcript of Jim and Adam’s [...]
The Spaces…In-Between
I’ve always found the perspective I’ve gotten from the spaces “in-between” to be the most compelling. The overlap that occurs between circles in a Venn diagram. The accidental discoveries presented between a starting point and a destination. The intersection between disciplines that forces creative thinking about the unlikely relationship between seemingly disparate topics. But that [...]
Kaizen Camp is Rolling!
Okay, this is exciting! We have Kaizen Camps planned for New York, Los Angeles (Irvine), and Boulder - all before the end of the year. In our work-in-progress, we are discussing Camps in early 2013 in Israel, Australia, Viet Nam, Europe, DC, Toronto, and Boston. We also have new pages on this site regarding: Who, what, [...]
Kaizen Camp: Seattle – What We Did at Camp
This year’s Seattle Kaizen Camp was awesome. I loved the range and diversity of the attendees, with people from health care, education, government, software development, and a host of other occupations. We had attendees from college students to C-Level management. We were once again very close to gender parity. And we had people from across [...]