Mark was a recent recipient of a Shingo Prize. Congratulations Mark! Do you have trouble implementing or sustaining the initiatives after a Kaizen Event? In this transcription of the Business901 podcast episode, I spent the bulk of the podcast on this subject with author Mark Hamel. Mark’s book, Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Read More …
Do you have trouble implementing or sustaining the initiatives after a Kaizen Event? In this Business901 podcast episode, I spent the bulk of the podcast on this subject with author Mark Hamel. Mark’s book, Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and Standard Work for Effective Events spends a third of the book on discussing implementing and Read More …
When holding a Kaizen Event have you ever really taken the time to think thru the event and how you will hold people’s interest and more importantly how you will get them engaged? Managers may think that everyone has the same level of interest and are willing to participate and share openly. I think that Read More …
The past few weeks I have been heavily immersed into Kaizen, Kanban, Agile Project Development and as a result Scrum. I have found it quite interesting but somewhat overwhelming along with a few other things I am doing. I have taxed my learning absorption level, to say the least. What did I do? I took Read More …
This is a transcription of the podcast that I had with Karen Martin the co-author of The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service and Technical Environments. Karen shared so much new information that I had split the podcast into 2 parts. The 3rd part is the transcription of the podcast. These podcasts Read More …
In my recent discussions on White Collar Kaizen, one of the issues that seem to migrate through the conversation was the need for a process owner to insure that the Kaizen initiative was carried out. In the non?manufacturing world the teams are so cross functional and organizations are so “siloed,” that the claim is that Read More …