The Kaizen Event Planner
eBook - PDF

The Kaizen Event Planner

Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Kaizen Event Planner

Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

About this book

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events, cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process,

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780367351366
eBook ISBN
9781439827826
Edition
1
Subtopic
Operations

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. PREFACE
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CD INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
  7. PART I: Lean and Kaizen: An Overview
  8. CHAPTER 1: LEAN ENTERPRISE PRINCIPLES
  9. CHAPTER 2: KAIZEN CHARACTERISTICS
  10. PART II: Kaizen Event Planning
  11. CHAPTER 3: PLANNING ESSENTIALS
  12. CHAPTER 4: EVENT LEADERSHIP
  13. CHAPTER 5: SCOPING THE EVENT
  14. CHAPTER 6: KAIZEN TEAM FORMATION
  15. CHAPTER 7: EVENT LOGISTICS
  16. CHAPTER 8: PRE-EVENT COMMUNICATION
  17. CHAPTER 9: FINAL PREPARATIONS
  18. PART III: Kaizen Event Execution
  19. CHAPTER 10: EVENT STRUCTURE
  20. CHAPTER 11: EVENT KICKOFF
  21. CHAPTER 12: DOCUMENTING THE CURRENT STATE
  22. CHAPTER 13: IDENTIFYING WASTE AND PERFORMING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
  23. CHAPTER 14: BRAINSTORMING AND PRIORITIZING IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS
  24. CHAPTER 15: DESIGNING AND TESTING IMPROVEMENTS
  25. CHAPTER 16: IMPLEMENTING IMPROVEMENTS
  26. CHAPTER 17: EVENT WRAP-UP
  27. PART IV: Beyond the Kaizen Event: Sustaining and Expanding
  28. CHAPTER 18: FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
  29. CHAPTER 19: CREATING A KAIZEN CULTURE
  30. Appendices
  31. APPENDIX A: LEAN TERMINOLOGY
  32. APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
  33. INDEX
  34. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  35. Back Cover