Video: Kaizen Tools

Kaizen Tools

Topics in this Video

• What is kaizen? — 0:00
• What is a kaizen event? — 0:20
• Standard Work — 0:50

  The day after your event, people should be doing their standard work the new way.

• The templates you need to lead a kaizen event — 1:00
• Kaizen Event Checklist — 1:25

  Download free trial
  (so easy now that it no longer needs its own video)

• Kaizen Event Mandate — 1:30

  Has been merged with the generic Team Charter template.

• Event Agenda — 2:00
• Kaizen Team Roles — 2:20
• Empowerment Boundaries — 4:50
• Kaizen Newspaper Action List — 5:30
• Event Evaluation Form — 5:50
• Lessons Learned — 6:15
• Potential Future Improvements — 6:40
• Priorities Consensus — 7:00

  And more decision making tools and methods

• Easy to use — 7:10
• Easily personalized — 7:30

  using everything you know about familiar Microsoft Excel.

  And your personalizations can be automatically found and transferred to your new master templates every time that you upgrade.

• If you are not yet a seasoned lean veteran — 8:45

  then you will REALLY appreciate fill-in-the-blanks templates with online training.

Changes since this video was recorded

sometime before 2007

To see what's new...

1. See notes in the transcript summary
2. you will want to download the free lean leadership shareware templates
   (if you don't already own your license)