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How might your career be affected if you stumble over several common gotcha mistakes when you lead your next big Kaizen Event? (with the Big Wigs flying in from out of town)
How might your career be affected if you lead a flawless Kaizen Event worthy of a case study?
Features & Benefits
Why do Kaizen?
The Kaizen method is quite simply the fastest, most field-proven way to:
What is a Kaizen Event?
An intensive burst of business process improvement, usually involving...
1) Preparation by the Kaizen Event Leaders
2) Anywhere from a half day to a 5-day "Kaizen Event" - where representatives from every group of stakeholders devote undivided attention to improving one business process with clearly defined boundaries.
Examples of clearly-defined improvement objectives might include:
(Little 5% improvements are usually not worth the attention of a kaizen event. You are looking for BIG improvements!)
3) The day after the Lean Kaizen Event...
The Systems2win templates support the Kaizen philosophy and Lean Manufacturing tools and concepts taught in
Creating Continuous Flow
by Rother and Harris
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Kaizen tools, templates, and training
(Sometimes misspelled as "kaisen",
"kaisan", or "kaizan")
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Kaizen Event Checklist Event planning to thoroughly prepare to get the best results from your team's intensive time spent together. When the "big wigs" are coming in from out of town to participate in your next Kaizen Event - you are going to REALLY appreciated having a 16-page checklist containing all of the learning lessons of hundreds of other kaizen event leaders. The Kaizen Event Planning Checklist is amazingly thorough. You won't find yourself embarrassed by thoughtless oversights that have tarnished the careers of so many of your predecessors. 16 pages |
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| Mandate & Summary To summarize the Kaizen Mandate and Results in a format that is easily pasted into PowerPoint for a Kaizen presentation |
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| Agenda More detailed Kaizen planning template. Who will do what, where, and when. And who needs to do what preparation and homework? And when? (3 pages) |
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Team Roles Maybe YOU know every detail of every Kaizen Team Role, but does everyone else know what they're supposed to be doing? Clear responsibilities for every role needed for a successful Kaizen: Event Coordinator, Team Leader, Co-Leader, Process Owner, Process Experts, Process Outsiders, Facilitator, Facilitators Team, Company Executive Team, and Change Agent. (4 pages) |
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| Ground Rules for Working Together Covenants for mutual respect and productive work habits. How many teams have you been part of that could have benefited enormously from taking a few moments to lay some ground rules - BEFORE someone became a problem? |
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| Empowerment Boundaries Top management's clear communication of what a Team can and must do. Clearly communicated in writing and framed on a wall - so that people don't have to constantly interrupt high level managers to clarify what their team is and is not empowered to do. |
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| Action List Action List to follow up with all loose ends after the Improvement Event has climaxed |
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| Event Evaluation Form After each Continuous Improvement Event, it is customary for every participant to provide valuable insights |
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| Lessons Learned And what do you do with all of those insights gathered from the Event Evaluation forms? A savvy Lean company organizes them into a Lessons Learned repository. "To improve the ways that we improve" |
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| Potential Future Improvements When people come up with ideas - you don't want to lose those ideas for lack of a means of collecting and organizing them. Kaizen event planning: What might we do next? |
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| Priorities Worksheet "The Leader is the one that climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'wrong jungle'!" (Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Successful People) The Priorities Consensus Worksheet provides a proven way for your leadership team to make sure that you choose the processes that are most worth improving. |
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| Schedule Schedule of upcoming improvement events. Once your leaders have agreed upon what do do next, you need a simple way to communicate those decisions. |
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