Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for continuous improvement (kaizen) event
- Select process/area for kaizen event
- Select kaizen team for event
- Develop scope and direction for event
- Validate scope with stakeholders
- Determine whether to proceed with kaizen event
- Negotiate problem issues with undertaking identified improvement, or choose a different process or area for improvement activity
- Make infra structure and support arrangements for improvement event.
- Undertake kaizen event
- Arrange for initial training in continuous improvement (kaizen) and related skills for employees involved in improvement event
- Facilitate the development of operating protocols for the team
- Build a description of the target work process
- Clarify points of disagreement/uncertainty through consultation and where required by reference to procedures or other relevant authority
- Analyse the process to quantify waste volumes and sources
- Consult individual operators in process or area asking for improvement ideas
- Solve performance issues
- Negotiate any differences between problems and proposed solutions and initial objectives of improvement event
- Develop plan(s) and obtain agreements to implement improvements
- Implement improvements
- Measure changes and calculate benefits
- Complete all relevant documentation
- Communicate achievements to stakeholders
- Institutionalise continuous improvement