Monday, March 16, 2009

What is the Kaizen? - part 2

What is the Kaizen?

Kaizen can get your company in front of the competition. By making small improvements on a continuous basis, you can make tremendous impact at the end of the year. You want to make Kaizen part of the culture of your company. Living the Kaizen every day, your people will continue to improve themselves as well as the quality of their work.

How to apply the Kaizen?

- Reevaluate your products, services and processes and identify issues: quality, cost, delays, inefficiencies, price, etc, that need to be resolved, or at least improved (remember, sometimes you will have to leave with a non-perfect solution at the beginning, knowing that the improvements will continue).

- In occasions, a cross functional team will analyze the problem using specific tools designed specifically to analyze the problems and lead more easily to a solution.

- Action plans and control mechanisms are put in place to guarantee that the objectives and deadlines are attained. Most Kaizen workouts last between three and five days. And goals are, in general, very ambitious (stretch goals).

- Make sure your team is rewarded as the different goals are achieved and the results of the process improvements start to materialize.

But remember, the secret is to create a culture of small improvements every single day.

Have a Good Business!

Hector
hector.barresi@boundlesscoaching.com
http://www.boundlesscoaching.com/
Phone: 775-200-2864

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