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Employee involvement has repeatedly proven itself to be the key to any successful continuous improvement program. But to make an employee-driven improvement system work requires careful planning, management, training, guidance, and documentation. This new book offers all that, in a clear, concise but complete presentation.
The Improvement Engine deals with the two aspects of successful programs developed first in Japan: Kaizen, the goal of continuous incremental improvement, and Teian, the process of involving employees in reaching the goal. The book outlines an approach any company, division, unit, manager, kaizen promoter, or team leader can take to establish and utilize a kaizen teian program. Based on years of development in numerous companies, it presents methods for surfacing ideas about improvements in the organization and making people more conscious of opportunities for implementing additional improvements.
The book provides a framework for understanding kaizen and suggestions, including:
- offering a model "kaizen sheet" tool for documenting improvements
- presenting examples to guide the promotion, education, and implementation of a kaizen teian system.
- As well, you will learn to discern between what shouldn't be done, what must be done, and what you'd benefit by doing. You will also learn why using this simple, disciplined approach helps you get to the core of a problem quickly, thereby reaping the benefits of improvement much more rapidly.
This book will provide you with an in-depth understanding of successful employee suggestion systems for continuous improvement. Using the Japanese model, you will learn to develop employee talents through suggestion activity.
