
eBook - PDF
The Kaizen Event Planner
Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- 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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CD INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
- PART I: Lean and Kaizen: An Overview
- CHAPTER 1: LEAN ENTERPRISE PRINCIPLES
- CHAPTER 2: KAIZEN CHARACTERISTICS
- PART II: Kaizen Event Planning
- CHAPTER 3: PLANNING ESSENTIALS
- CHAPTER 4: EVENT LEADERSHIP
- CHAPTER 5: SCOPING THE EVENT
- CHAPTER 6: KAIZEN TEAM FORMATION
- CHAPTER 7: EVENT LOGISTICS
- CHAPTER 8: PRE-EVENT COMMUNICATION
- CHAPTER 9: FINAL PREPARATIONS
- PART III: Kaizen Event Execution
- CHAPTER 10: EVENT STRUCTURE
- CHAPTER 11: EVENT KICKOFF
- CHAPTER 12: DOCUMENTING THE CURRENT STATE
- CHAPTER 13: IDENTIFYING WASTE AND PERFORMING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER 14: BRAINSTORMING AND PRIORITIZING IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS
- CHAPTER 15: DESIGNING AND TESTING IMPROVEMENTS
- CHAPTER 16: IMPLEMENTING IMPROVEMENTS
- CHAPTER 17: EVENT WRAP-UP
- PART IV: Beyond the Kaizen Event: Sustaining and Expanding
- CHAPTER 18: FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
- CHAPTER 19: CREATING A KAIZEN CULTURE
- Appendices
- APPENDIX A: LEAN TERMINOLOGY
- APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Back Cover