3 Steps to Better Kaizen
Steven Daniel Bonacorsi ??
Steven Bonacorsi ?? President of the International Standard for Lean Six Sigma (ISLSS)?, ?? Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, ?? Lean Six Sigma Group, Owner PMP, MBA, ???? MS-CIS, Agilest, Management Consultant
When companies rely too heavily on Kaizen, what they're often really saying is, "Our Value Stream isn’t good, but we can't afford to start from scratch."Free Webinar: 3 Steps to Better Kaizen
The underlying philosophy of Kaizen is that unless a process is improving, it is degrading. This means that every process needs to have an improvement plan. And it’s part of everyone’s job to make this happen by suggesting improvements and working on them. Sounds great, right?
Not so fast. Could the very need for Kaizen be a red flag, a warning that something was lacking at the design stage?
It’s easy to embrace the concept of Continuous Improvement, without considering why you need it to begin with. The problem with traditional Kaizen is that continuously improving a broken system results in wasted time, resources, and money.
What I’m proposing is a new approach to Kaizen. Rather than seeking to incrementally improve your Current State, begin with the end in mind. Then use your Kaizen efforts, not as a quick fix, but as a means towards the creation of the perfect Value Stream.
I’ll discuss this idea at length in a free 60-minute webinar called "Three Steps to Better Kaizen" Tuesday, August 8th 1:00pm - 2:00pm (New York); 11:00am - Noon (Denver); 10:00am - 11:00am (L.A.)
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P.S. We recently launched a, "Fundamentals of Mixed Model" video series that I am confident you will find educational.
How do you build many different products without wasting floor space, lowering productivity, or having to invest millions in additional equipment and tooling? The answer is an industrial engineering methodology called Mixed Model Line Design.
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I coach companies in the most important Lean skill: Mixed Model Manufacturing. The Lean Manufacturing strategy is built on the foundation of Lean Industrial Engineering, workflow and material flow design.
7 年Thanks for sharing Steven Bonacorsi