KAIZEN Lean and Continuous Improvement Model
Who Should Attend
- Leaders, CEOs, CFOs, Presidents
- Cross Functional Teams are Encouraged to Attend
- Employees from Education and Training, Office Management
- Managers of Operations, Service, Manufacturing, Administration, Human Resources
- Directors/Coordinators of Six Sigma, TQM, KAIZEN Lean or Improvement Initiatives
Learning Objectives and Benefits
- Understand how the KAIZEN Management SystemTM your organization’s culture, initiatives, programs, and tools, thereby enhancing return on investment of any individual initiative
- How to assess your organization’s culture and readiness to sustain a KAIZEN Management SystemTM
- Recognize and leverage opportunities for improvement that advance the organization’s strategic goals
- Use Value Stream Mapping to identify both material excesses and opportunities to improve cash flow, productivity, and capacity utilization
- Develop an understanding of waste that allows you to recognize opportunities to improve
- Learn how to do Value Stream Mapping of the future state and link this to the improvement roadmap
Day I
- Introduction to KAIZEN thinking
- Why a KAIZEN Management SystemTM
- Importance of a Structured System
- Measurability and Manageability
- Self Assessment of your organization’s culture to sustain improvement of KAIZEN
- Workplace organization and MUDA (i.e. waste) linkages to KMS
- Waste, what is it and how to see it
- How 5S helps with MUDA elimination
- Tools for Value Stream Mapping – technique, tools and goals
- Value Stream Mapping the Current and Future State
- Importance of developing a service, production , or CI model
- Developing a roadmap of improvement for the value stream
- Implementing applications immediately “taking it back home”