Kaizen Manager’s Guide to Leading Successful Sustainable Events: The how-to guide for the hands on kaizen practitioners

In my 30+ years of leading hundreds of Kaizen events, I have found a simple system that, if diligently followed, will guarantee successful and sustainable results. Over the years I have led events under some of the best sensei’s in the world including first generation Toyota sensei’s. I once had a sensei from Japan tell me “Kaizen is like golfing. You can read a book on how to golf, but it does not mean you will be a good player. The only way to be a good player is by practicing over and over”. Before you can practice, you must have a standard to practice. This guide creates the standard.Another sensei once told our team that the reason our efforts were failing was because within the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, we put too little effort into the Plan, and too much effort into the Do. I have decided to write a book with detailed plans on how to successfully prepare for an event, manage an event, and the follow up after the event wraps up. This book should be considered as standard work for managing your end to end kaizen event process.Over the many years of practicing kaizen, I have witnessed numerous events fail because of poor preparation or have seen successful events go backwards or lose sustainability altogether due to poor post-event follow up. This guide enables you to put the right amount of effort into your plan to give your team sustainable results.This step by step guide was written by an Engineer for Engineers Read more