Kaizen Kanban is a guide to creating prioritized project pipelines and setting up improvement boards to maximize business success through the execution of continuous improvement projects. It introduces to the “Faster and Better” visual facilitation approach that enables you to seamlessly leverage and combine fundamental tools in order to identify improvement opportunities for entire value streams, compile them in a prioritized project pipeline, and set up improvement display boards, or “kaizen kanbans,” linked to key business objectives.
Kaizen kanbans follow the same principles used with traditional kanbans. They are visual communication tools and are visible to all levels of employees within the organization. The difference is that instead of telling operators what to build next or what parts to retrieve, the cards tell improvement teams what pre-approved projects are most relevant to current business needs and are next in line for implementation.
This approach is designed to complement and enhance the effectiveness of quality, lean, continuous improvement, and project management initiatives that may already be in place in an organization.
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I : Prioritized Project Pipeline
Chapter 1 : Why Kaizen Kanban?
Chapter 2 : Context
Chapter 3 : SportsMax
Chapter 4 : Findings and Report
Chapter 5 : Prework
Chapter 6 : Kickoff Meeting
Chapter 7 : Process Map
Chapter 8 : Seven Ways
Chapter 9 : Detailed Process Map Analysis
Chapter 10 : Waste
Chapter 11 : Value-Added/Non-Value-Added Analysis
Chapter 12 : SIPOC
Chapter 13 : Handoff Map
Chapter 14 : Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Chapter 15 : Translating Opportunities for Improvement into Problem Statements
Chapter 16 : Introduction to Kaizen
Chapter 17 : Kaizen Kanban
Chapter 18 : Beyond the Kanban
Chapter 19 : Step by Step
Part II : Facilitation
Chapter 20 : Facilitators Enable Doers to Do More
Chapter 21 : Facilitator Guidelines
Chapter 22 : Paradigm Shifts
Chapter 23 : Team Life Cycle
Chapter 24 : Setting the Stage for Successful Meetings
Chapter 25 : Group Creativity Techniques
Chapter 26 : Handling Difficult Group Situations
Chapter 27 : Handling Difficult Individual Situations
Glossary
Bibliography
Suggested Reading
Useful Websites
Index
