by Ted Eytan, on 24 May 2006 12:15 pm
The Journey
More kaizen more of the time
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This week I am sitting in a kaizen in action and a kaizen in development. On both, I am on the management guidance team.
In both, there’s an undercurrent of tension around time. How many events can we have that take staff “off the line” and if we do, what’s the ROI for the issue the kaizen is addressing?
I think at some level that this is short term versus long term thinking.
Kaizen is as much an educational experience about how to do system change as it is about making the change. What did we do before kaizen? One day we won’t remember what we did before.