| Kaizen 14:37 - Oct 8 with 2312 views | blueasfook |
Anyone come across this? I have a training course for it later in the month. It's supposed to be some Japanese lean methodology. I think it's just some BS we've probably paid some management consultant a couple of hundred K to deliver, and will have zero impact. |  |
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| Kaizen on 14:46 - Oct 8 | Perublue |
There is a sushi bar with that name we visit,so thank you for giving me something to talk to the wife about and sound clever. |  |
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| Kaizen on 14:49 - Oct 8 | Help |
Yeah been doing the rounds for years. Basically trying to encourage outside the box thinking. Streamline working, efficiency etc.
Like most of these things went back to my desk and forgot about it. |  |
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| Kaizen on 14:52 - Oct 8 | blueasfook |
| Kaizen on 14:49 - Oct 8 by Help |
Yeah been doing the rounds for years. Basically trying to encourage outside the box thinking. Streamline working, efficiency etc.
Like most of these things went back to my desk and forgot about it. |
Yeah that's what I thought. Waste of a day. | |
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| Kaizen on 15:13 - Oct 8 | Illinoisblue |
Been through it a few years back. Company paid some happy clapper consultants a lot of money and the net result was they ended up sacking a load of people. Load of old bollox. |  |
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| Kaizen on 15:25 - Oct 8 | vilanovablue |
Used by Japanese manufacturers particularly car manufacturers many attribute to the Japanese motor industry success in the 70s and 80s. Does it apply in the UK and is out of date now well quite possibly. [Post edited 8 Oct 2024 15:26]
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| Kaizen on 15:55 - Oct 8 | KBsSocks |
Continuous improvement / 5 Sigma Production / Kaizen / TQM can be very powerful management-of-processes tools. Depends what you are doing. Surprised your company isn't utilising these already. |  |
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| Kaizen on 17:19 - Oct 8 | cressi |
| Kaizen on 15:55 - Oct 8 by KBsSocks |
Continuous improvement / 5 Sigma Production / Kaizen / TQM can be very powerful management-of-processes tools. Depends what you are doing. Surprised your company isn't utilising these already. |
It's old hat now was used at lucas Delphi Sudbury 30yrs ago.
It's in short a pull through system instead of a push through system. |  | | |
| Kaizen on 17:21 - Oct 8 | Keno |
arent they the baddies in Star Trek Voyager? |  |
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| Kaizen on 18:13 - Oct 8 | Clutch |
Didn't know anywhere still did this! |  | | |
| Kaizen on 18:37 - Oct 8 | Ewan_Oozami |
Isn't he the guy who invented fanum tax? |  |
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| Kaizen on 00:30 - Oct 9 | IPS_wich |
| Kaizen on 15:25 - Oct 8 by vilanovablue |
Used by Japanese manufacturers particularly car manufacturers many attribute to the Japanese motor industry success in the 70s and 80s. Does it apply in the UK and is out of date now well quite possibly. [Post edited 8 Oct 2024 15:26]
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Like all management methodologies it’s an attempt to distil something that worked exceptionally well in one industry (in this case Japanese motor industry) into a ‘methodology’ or a ‘toolkit’ without understanding that organisational context, behaviour, culture and leadership are the most influential factors in the initial success.
Having been one of those consultants mentioned who had some limited success deploying lean/Kaizen in the NHS in the early 2000s it had some limited success in Japanese process driven parts of the hospital (mainly diagnostic areas such as radiology and pathology) - we found it completely fell over when the operational environment was more random and human judgement based (such as ED and Surgery).
It’s also doomed to fail if the the intent is to cut costs - because the underlying philosophy is based upon improvement ideas from the front line - good luck persuading staff to come up with ideas that could see them made redundant. | | | |
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