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Category: Kaizen Tips

Trying to do all of the improvement work yourself as a manager?

By Mark Graban Posted on May 26, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

“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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Work to Implement Ideas

By Mark Graban Posted on May 26, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

See the entire KaiNexus improvement tips video series here. Learn more about KaiNexus.

Kaizen is Usually a Team Sport

By Mark Graban Posted on May 26, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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Quantifying the Benefits

By Mark Graban Posted on May 20, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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Spreading and Sharing Ideas

By Mark Graban Posted on May 1, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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Ideas and Root Causes

By Mark Graban Posted on April 1, 2014 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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Avoid the Shut Down

By Mark Graban Posted on November 25, 2013 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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The First Rule: Keep Ideas with the Creator

By Mark Graban Posted on November 19, 2013 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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 …

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25 Key Leader Behaviors that Encourage Continuous Improvement

By Mark Graban Posted on August 25, 2013 Posted in Kaizen Tips

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  

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