This course provides a guide to the benefits and characteristics of a Lean culture. It provides tips and strategies for facilitating a culture change through the use of kaizen. And it provides a detailed guide on how to plan for and implement a kaizen event in your organization.

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The Lean for Business Organizations course includes the following 6 sections:

1. Introduction to Lean for Service and Manufacturing,

2. Using Lean for Perfection and Quality,

3. Lean Tools and Techniques for Flow and Pull,

4. Reducing Waste and Streamlining Value Flow Using Lean,

5. Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business, and

6. Applying Lean in Service and Manufacturing Organizations

After completing this topic, you should be able to categorize characteristics of organizational culture as Lean or non-Lean

Characteristics and Benefits of Lean Culture

In organization can minimize resource use by redesigning processes to eliminate waste. Some examples of waste include overprocessing, delays, downtime, defects, and excess inventory.

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Changing over to a Lean way of thinking can be difficult. Estimates state that a majority of companies fail to implement Lean successfully.

After completing this topic, you should be able to identify strategies for building a kaizen culture and match the characteristics of a kaizen event to corresponding descriptions.

How to Build a Kaizen Culture

Use this job aid to review the key factors in adopting a kaizen culture and the characteristics of kaizen events.

As most people learn, creating effective change is difficult. It may start off well, but its often difficult to maintain.

A kaizen event is an improvement initiative in which employees from various departments come together to analyze a problem.

After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize activities a team carries out while implementing kaizen in an organization

Kaizen Implementation

Use this follow-on activity to guide you in selecting an appropriate target for a kaizen even.

Use this job aid to guide you in planning and implementing a kaizen event.

Careful planning is essential for any kaizen event – without a good plan, you won't achieve results. When planning a kaizen event, you need to select a target for the event.

Once a cross-functional team is in place, the next step is to develop a kaizen event charter. This document is updated and goes through several reviews before the planning process completes and the event can begin.

Using the plan created in the kaizen event charter, you can begin to implement the kaizen event to improve a work process.

Once waste and its root causes have been identified, the team needs to brainstorm ideas for improvement and then find a way to implement these improvements.

This course provides a guide to the benefits and characteristics of a Lean culture. It provides tips and strategies for facilitating a culture change through the use of kaizen. And it provides a detailed guide on how to plan for and implement a kaizen event in your organization.

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