Jan 11 2013
Mike Rother: You already have a Kaizen Promotion Office… It’s called “Management” » The Lean Edge
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Mike Rother: You already have a KPO… It’s called “Management” » The Lean Edge http://t.co/qlQvRAZB
Michel Baudin‘s insight:
I agree. What Rother depicts is what most Kaizen Promotion Ofices degenerate into, but it shouldn’t be taken to mean that there should be absolutly no one in the company working full time on Lean. Even Toyota, for example, has the OMCD (Operations Management Consulting Division). The OMCD, however, has on the order of 60 members for more than 300,000 employees, which works out to one for every 5,000. This ratio guarantees that they won’t be the ones carrying out improvement projects for everybody else.
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Dec 23 2018
Kaizen and Improvements That Last
One reader recently asked the Gemba Coach “Our teams have good results with kaizen, but nothing seems to stick for long – any advice?” This begs the question of what you call “good results that don’t stick.” Successfully completing a Kaizen project means reducing a new work method to daily practice. A compelling demo in a management presentation is not the end. Claiming good results on this basis is like declaring victory after running a quarter of the race. By definition, if it doesn’t stick, it’s not a good result! If it happens systematically, then your whole Kaizen activity is a failure.
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