Why Continuous Improvement Programs Don't Get Funded (52 characters)

<p>Continuous improvement work creates real value. Most of that value never reaches executives in a form they can trust.</p><p><a href="https://www.kainexus.com/jeff-roussel-ci-funding-webinar" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">View slides and more</a></p><p>In this recorded webinar, Jeff Roussel, Chief Revenue Officer at KaiNexus, argues that CI does not have an impact problem. It has a translation problem. Only about 28 percent of the improvements tracked in KaiNexus show a direct, visible financial impact. So when an executive asks what the organization is actually getting from all this work, the answer usually arrives as a spreadsheet, a set of caveats about data quality, and a week of effort. That does not build confidence.</p><p>Jeff walks through what changes when improvement work gets described in the language leaders already use. Examples include a hospital system that documented $137 million in savings after reserving operating rooms for emergency cases and adjusting scheduling patterns, a global mining company with roughly 284,000 improvements and $178 million in impact across 12,000 employees, and a fintech company that went from $4.5 million to $15 million in documented savings in a year after deciding that if an improvement was not in the system, it did not count.</p><p>He also offers a structure for the next funding conversation. Start with the pain. Move to the impact on a metric leadership already cares about. Then make a focused ask, such as a 90-day pilot with one team and one metric, rather than asking to transform the whole program.</p><p>Mark Graban hosts and joins Jeff for an extended Q&amp;A on:</p><p>Balancing short-term results against long-term thinking<br>Whether a CI program should fund itself beyond startup costs<br>How to handle soft benefits like engagement, morale, and quality without inflating the numbers<br>How to get the meeting when executives are not giving you their time<br>Why the problem with spreadsheets is usually trust, not the spreadsheets</p><p>Jeff offered to help listeners think through their own business case, whether or not software is part of the conversation: <a href="mailto:jeff.roussel@kainexus.com">jeff.roussel@kainexus.com</a></p><p>More than 100 free recorded webinars: <a href="https://www.kainexus.com/webinars">https://www.kainexus.com/webinars</a><br>Continuous improvement blog: <a href="https://blog.kainexus.com">https://blog.kainexus.com</a><br>Podcast: <a href="https://www.kainexus.com/po