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Continuous Improvement
Firm
Challenge
Have a long term
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vision
of the challenges you need to face to realize your ambition – what you need
to
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learn
rather than what you want to do and then have the spirit to face that
challenge.
To do so, you and your team have to challenge yourselves every
day to see if you are
achieving
your
goals.
Kaizen
Establishing the
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Kaizen Mindset is the starting
point of the continuous improvement journey. Everything can and should be
improved. Good enough never is, no process can ever be thought perfect, so
operations must be improved continuously, striving for evolution and
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innovation.
Go and See
(Genchi Genbutsu):
This is a key principle of the
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Toyota
Production System. The only
way to truly understand what happens on the shop floor ( 'gemba') is to go
there. It is here that value is added and here that waste could be observed.
'Go and See' is therefore a key approach in
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problem solving.
If the problem exists on the shopfloor then it needs to be
understood and solved at the shop floor. Since real value is created at the
shop floor in manufacturing, this is where management need to spend their
time. Go to the source to see the facts for oneself and make the right
decisions, create consensus, and make sure goals are attained at the best
possible speed. This
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attitude of "Go and See" is also called Gemba attitude.
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Lean Enterprise:
Kore 10 Tips
Example of a Lean Value Chain
Making
It Work: Respect For People
Respect For People at
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Toyota
essentially involves two defining principles:
1. Respect: Taking every stakeholders'
problems seriously, and making every effort to build mutual trust. Taking
responsibility for other people reaching their objectives.
2. Teamwork: Develop individuals through
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teams-based
problem-solving. Engage people
and develop them through their contribution to team performance. The are
three
team levels: shop floor teams, the whole site as team, and the whole
company as a team.
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Implementing Kaizen:
7 Conditions
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