Eugene Kaizen Class

Thanks for having me come present to the Emerald Valley High Performance Consortium! Please do keep in touch about your progress, lessons learned, or challenges from your Kaizen efforts.

Some links to people and books that I mentioned:

• Norman Bodek – his books
• The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits
• Alan Robinson books on Kaizen and idea systems – the article I cited (PDF)
• Kaizen by Masaaki Imai (a classic)

Below, you can view or download (as PDF) the slides I used for our session yesterday.

 

Below is the simulation exercise (as a PPT). You can download, use this, modify, etc. I only ask that, if you find a better way to facilitate or tweak the exercise, please what you’ve learned with me.

Mark Graban Kaizen Workshop Envelope Exercise from Mark Graban

Note: The timer in the slides is an embedded video, by the way (somebody asked during our session)