“Many hands make for light work.” – John Heywood If Kaizen and continuous improvement are overwhelming to you as a leader, ask yourself if you are delegating enough? Are you distributing the improvement workload across your team? Managers don’t have …
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What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban A Kaizen idea, whether it’s the identification of a problem or a proposed countermeasure, usually starts with one person. Then, things go through the full Kaizen process: Find problems or ideas Discuss them in the …
In the Kaizen process, it’s important to document our improvements – the before, the after, and the benefits.Not every Kaizen will have a quantifiable ROI. Many do, but we don’t make that a requirement for approving ideas or for recognizing people. To get people …
What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban In the Kaizen process, we emphasize how important it is to involve everybody in continuous improvement. We identify local issues and identify solutions to test locally, following the PDSA cycle.That said, how can we leverage ideas across a …
What is Kaizen? By Mark Graban In the Kaizen process, we ask everybody to identify problems (or opportunities) and then to write down an idea that could potentially solve the problem (at least to some extent). What’s written down on the …
What is Kaizen? By Joe Swartz A few years ago, I discovered that our organization’s most prolific “Kaizeneer” (a person who does Kaizen) from the year before hadn’t yet completed a single Kaizen in the new year. So, I approached …
What is Kaizen? By Joe Swartz A few months ago one of our new managers asked me, “Should Kaizen take four to eight hours of my time each week?” That startled me, because I knew she managed one of our …
Click the link or photo below to see (and hear) this webinar given by Mark Graban and Greg Jacobson, of KaiNexus: 25 Key Leader Behaviors that Encourage Continuous Improvement