Creating a Kaizen Culture

Get started with kaizen, implement it in your organization using kaizen events, and ensure the improvements are realized and sustained. Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating a Kaizen Culture: Align the Organization, Achieve Breakthrough Results, and Sustain the Gains shows how to lead through the different kaizen events, focusing less on theory and philosophy, and more on how to put the knowledge into practice. This practical guide helps you understand how to use the various forms of kaizen to propel rapid and sustainable performance improvement. It provides a detailed and illustrated road map to organized kaizen implementation. You'll find all the materials and tasks required for preparation, execution, and follow-up of kaizen events. This book bridges the gap between an overview for management and a manual for practitioners. Tips, case studies from kaizen-driven leaders, templates, and "one point lessons" round out the work, and offer additional insight into the authors' kaizen breakthrough achievements. With more than 75 years of accumulated experience using kaizen to lead real transformation, the authors offer a unique work in its structured, visual design and rich but practical content. Step-by-step descriptions of how to lead with kaizen, and how to follow up to sustain improvements Tips on empowering employees while holding them accountable for their results Case studies by kaizen-driven CEOs such as Art Byrne and John Toussaint Includes "one point lessons" - one-page summaries that capture the main principle of each chapter A wealth of experience from three experts who have led kaizen events in a wide variety of industries and different sized companies

About the Author

JON MILLER has 20 years of experience in thefield of kaizen. He is the CEO of the Kaizen InstituteConsulting Group. He was co-founder and CEO of Gemba Research before merging it with the Kaizen Institute. Jon is the author of numerous articles, and translated and edited Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management as well as contributing to other McGraw-Hill Professional books, including Gemba Kaizen, Second Edition, and Kaizen in Logistics and Supply Chains. MIKE WROBLEWSKI has more than 25 years ofexperience in industrial engineering, manufacturingmanagement, and kaizen. He is a Director of the Kaizen Institute USA. Mike is a popular keynote speaker at national conferences, sharing his insights and experiences leading kaizen. JAIME VILLAFUERTE has 20 years of experiencein the strategic and tactical deployment of continuous improvement. He is a Lean Six Sigma Director at Jabil, Inc., where he leads the development and deployment of Lean Six Sigma transformation, reaching 165,000+ employees in 33 countries. Jaime is the author of The Lean 6Sigma Deployment Memory Jogger.