Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

By Karen Martin and Mike Osterling

A practical how-to guide, this book takes readers through the ins and outs of planning and executing Kaizen Events in non-manufacturing settings and conducting post-event follow-up to sustain the changes made. The authors provide methods and tools to help build a motivated workforce and lay a foundation for continuous improvement.

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Publisher: Productivity Press
Publish Date: 07/27/2017
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781138438699
ISBN-10: 1138438693
Language: English

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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, identify and prioritize improvement opportunities, implement change, and sustain their gains. Most importantly, they learn how to work with one another to solve problems rapidly and in a highly effective way.In The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments, authors Karen Martin and Mike Osterling provide a practical how-to guide for planning and executing Kaizen Events in non-manufacturing settings, and conducting post-Event follow-ups to sustain the improvements made.Geared to continuous improvement professionals and leaders within the office areas of manufacturing, the service sector and knowledge-worker environments, this book provides the methodology and practical tools for generating measurable results, while building a motivated workforce and laying the foundation for continuous improvement.The Kaizen Event Planner provides those responsible for improving office, service, and technical processes with the skills to effectively scope the activity, engage the right people, and facilitate successful Events!An accompanying CD provides immediate access to a number of Excel-based tools.

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Karen Martin, Principal Consultant for Karen Martin & Associates, specializes in applying Lean principles and tools in office, service, and technical environments.

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Karen Martin, Principal Consultant for Karen Martin & Associates, specializes in applying Lean principles and tools in office, service, and technical environments. She has provided performance improvement support to organizations in a broad range of industries, including: construction, distribution, education, engineering services, financial services, government/military, healthcare, information technology, insurance, manufacturing, oil and gas production, and publishing.

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