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3 Basic Principles of Continuous Improvement Case Studies

Challenge  ●  Kaizen    Go and See

   

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Challenge

Have a long term vision of the challenges you need to face to realize your ambition – what you need to 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 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 innovation.

Go and See (Genchi Genbutsu):

This is a key principle of the 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 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 attitude of "Go and See" is also called Gemba attitude.

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Making It Work: Respect For People

Respect For People at 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 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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Konosuke Matsushita advice quotes

The main purpose of production is to improve the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated.

Konosuke Matsushita

Panasonic

Soichiro Honda quotes

After materials are carried into the factory, nothing but products

should be carried out from it.  >>>

Soichiro Honda

Honda

Walt Disney business quotes

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Walt Disney

Jeff Bezos story lessons quotes

It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

Henry Ford advice

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Henry Ford

Ford Moror

Bill Gates advice

We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience.

Bill Gates

Micsosoft

Vadim Kotelnikov advice quotes

Average ones compete with others.

Great ones compete with themselves.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Innovarsity