Kaizen means continuous daily improvement, small changes that make things better. Kaizen events are a way to accelerate your company's continuous improvement culture. In this presentation, learn how to leverage the power of your employees and partners to make a culture of improvement at your company.
9. Jump start your continual improvemen
Kaizen Events:
1. Make rapid – step
change improvements
2. Get results through
collaboration with
partners
3. Lay the foundation for
a continuous
improvement culture
10. The life cycle of a typical Kaizen Even
Phase 2 – Phase 3 – Phase 4 –
Phase 1 -
Pre-event Event Event follow-
Strategy
planning Execution through
• -180 to -30 days • -20 to 0 days • 0 to 5 business • 5 – 20
before the event before the event days business
• Tie changes to • Involve the • Design, Test days after
your vision – right people to and Implement event
right solve the right Improvements. • Sustain the
ladder, right problem at the gains.
wall. right time.
Source: Kaizen Event Fieldbook
15. Typical challenge with change approa
1. Changes thrown over the wall 2. Resistance by partner / vendor
3. Threats to partner / vendor 4. Change effort does not get results
17. 3. Build the foundation for
a continual improvement
culture
18. Kaizen events teach problem solving t
Kaizen teams learn problem solving tools like the 5 why's, seeing waste
and metrics based process mapping, applicable to other problems in the
organization.
19. The Hockey Stick
Road to Continual Improvement
120
1: Tool Driven: 2: System 3. Principle Daily
Management Driven: Driven: Kaizen
100 events not Management Everyone
coordinated and worker participates in
Performance
across planned events continual
80 groups/vendors tied to strategic improvement
or linked to objectives through
strategic Kaizen events, just do
60 Events its and projects.
Backsliding
Kaizen
Events
40
20
0
Time
Source: Kaizen Event Fieldbook
20. Two improvement wheels
Plan Standardize
Act Do
Act Do
Check
Check
Plan Do Check Act Standardize to prevent
backsliding
Source: Kaizen Event Fieldbook
21. No Kaizen without standard work!
Performance
A P
C D
SDCA
Time
Standard work helps avoid local
optima and backsliding.
Source: Kaizen Event Fieldbook
22. How do we build a continual improvemen
culture?
Top Management Innovation
A P
C D
Middle Management Kaizen
A S
C D
Supervisors
Maintenance
Front Line Associates
1. Kaizen is everyone‟s job
2. Appropriate involvement at the right level
makes implementation effective
Source: Kaizen Event Fieldbook
23. Daily Kaizen
Lean Management System Daily Kaizen Hockey Stick
A S A P
C D C D
Lean Management Daily Kaizen
System •Employee Suggestion
• Leader Standard Systems
Work •Mini-Kaizens
• Daily Tiered Startup •“Just-do-its”
Meetings •A3 Problem Solving
• Visual Controls Reports
• Standard •Value Stream Projects
Accountability
Practices
• Process Discipline Source: Creating a Lean Culture
24. Daily Startup Meetings Enable
Daily Kaizen
Like a standup, discuss with yesterday‟s results, abnormal
conditions and countermeasures
Assign “just do it” improvements to accountability board
Ideas for improvement posted on Improvement Idea Boards
Leader Standard Work
Source: Creating a Lean Culture Daily Startup Meetings
25. Conclusion
Kaizen Events:
1. Make rapid step change improvements
2. Get results through collaboration with business partners
3. Lay the foundation for a continuous improvement culture
27. I want you…
1. To try a Kaizen event for one of
your more significant cross project
organizational problems
2. Make problems visible
3. Ask why! Show respect! See with
your feet.
28. References
Kaizen Event Fieldbook: Foundation, Framework, and
Standard Work for Effective Events – Mark Hamel
Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean
Conversions, Second Edition
The Netflix Tech Blog – 5 Lessons we‟ve learned by using
AWS. http://bit.ly/hrjm6J
Notes de l'éditeur
Kaizen: A Japanese term for continuous improvement, a business philosophy about working practices and efficiency; improvement and productivity, and performance.Kai means “Change” and Zen means “For the better” or “To Take Apart”.
Relative to the time spent in the event, Kaizen events have a large impact on the
While Kaizen is continual daily improvement, Kaizen events are radical improvements through a focused 5 day workshop.
While Kaizen events are 3-5 days, they are part of larger framework. They require links to the strategy, careful planning, execution and followup. This ensures success:Phase 1: Done at a Value Stream Mapping Workshop (typically)Identify the areas you want to improveSchedule improvement sessionsPhase 2: Pre Event PlanningEvent SelectionCommunicationPre-Event PlanningLogisticsGather DataPhase 3: Event ExecutionEvaluate Current StateIdentify Top Problems with Current StateBrainstorm Improvements and Select High Leverage IdeasDesign and Test Standard WorkTrain affected workers in standard workDocument Sustainment PlanCelebrate!Phase 4: Clear ownership for any followup items 30 days following30-60 day auditsContinual monitoring and adjustment
Kaizen events focus on implementing the high impact low effort changes within the Kaizen event.
PDCAPlan – Establish GoalsDo – Implement the changes (Small change or test usually)Check – Observe the effectsAct – Depending on the results, standardize and stabilize the improvementsSDCA Standardize – Develop standards for a specific processDo – Apply the standardsCheck – Assess whether the standards are sufficient and/or if there is a lack of adherence to the standardAct – Depending on the results from the prior step, make adjustments or improvements to the standardized work or put in countermeasures to address the deficit of process adherence
Without standard work, you have no baseline in which to compare current reality with the standard. Also, if you don’t standardize your improvements, then your improvement efforts are localized and leave when the individual leaves the process.
Appropriate involvement across levels, both vertically to management and horizontally across business partners, make implementation effective and sustainable.
A lean management system along with Daily Kaizen creates an upward spiral of improvement.