Comments on: Another Question: Quick and Easy Kaizen http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/556 A blog about improvement in health care Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sumanth Trickannad http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/556#comment-6564 Sumanth Trickannad Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:06:53 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/556#comment-6564 I do not know if you got the answers you were looking for. If you are still looking, I hope my 2cents can help you. I have been closely involved in the Q & E Kaizen concept. The basic premise is, people come up with small improvement ideas that affects their area. That is the key. Each person is an expert in their area, so they come up with the most ideas, and implement them. In your case, since it spans other areas, see if the one big idea can be broken down into smaller bunch of ideas in each department. Get with the Managers for those departments, ask the right question that gets the team to start thinking of the smaller ideas, and you will finally get the desired result. Hope this helps. I do not know if you got the answers you were looking for. If you are still looking, I hope my 2cents can help you.
I have been closely involved in the Q & E Kaizen concept. The basic premise is, people come up with small improvement ideas that affects their area. That is the key. Each person is an expert in their area, so they come up with the most ideas, and implement them.
In your case, since it spans other areas, see if the one big idea can be broken down into smaller bunch of ideas in each department. Get with the Managers for those departments, ask the right question that gets the team to start thinking of the smaller ideas, and you will finally get the desired result. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Tom http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/556#comment-6433 Tom Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:03 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/556#comment-6433 Somebody comes up with a good idea on how to improve a process they use on a daily basis. The same process is defined, sometimes in a very prescriptive manner, in our browser-based corporate reference system that serves 7 business lines at 7 different locations. A paper chain is set in motion that involves amongst others the process owner and voila! 159 days later the change is implemented (or sometimes rejected). Now wouldn't it be nice if the change the guy thought of in the morning was implemented in the afternoon and he was given some recognition for it. Somebody comes up with a good idea on how to improve a process they use on a daily basis. The same process is defined, sometimes in a very prescriptive manner, in our browser-based corporate reference system that serves 7 business lines at 7 different locations.

A paper chain is set in motion that involves amongst others the process owner and voila! 159 days later the change is implemented (or sometimes rejected).

Now wouldn’t it be nice if the change the guy thought of in the morning was implemented in the afternoon and he was given some recognition for it.

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