Intro to Kaizen for Project Teams

by Hal on November 20, 2005

in lean, project kaizen

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Article Series - Project kaizen Co-Blogging

  1. Intro to kaizen for Project Teams
  2. Norman Bodek, Godfather of Lean
  3. Project kaizen Co-Blogging Themes
  4. Jon Miller, Lean Leader
  5. Chuck Frey, Innovation Maven
  6. Joe Ely, Lean Practitioner
  7. Bill Waddell, Lean Provocateur
  8. Mark Graban, Lean Commentary
  9. Who’s the Project kaizen “Plus One”?
  10. What is (Project) kaizen?
  11. gemba Project kaizen
  12. Adopt Project kaizen to Tap Ingenuity
  13. Kathleen Fasanella Is Monday’s Project kaizen “Plus One” Blogger
  14. Project kaizen Is Team Sport
  15. Project kaizen in Workstreams Increases Throughput
  16. Grim Reader: Project kaizen Co-Blogger for Wednesday
  17. Quick ‘n Easy Kaizen: Winning with Project kaizen
  18. Revisit and Rethink Your Project with the Project kaizen Blitz
  19. Accomplishment Fuels More Accomplishment
  20. We’ve Just Begun Exploring Project kaizen

The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen Lean thinking and lean manufacturing folk strongly recommend continuous improvement activities — kaizen — as a strategy for setting your firm on a path that will separate you from the competition. There is good advice available for manufacturing and service firms. There are also good books. But when I started a lens of kaizen for Projects I found very little that was geared for organizations that continually reorganized staff as project teams. So, I've invited a group of kaizen experts who blog to join me for the first week in December to focus their writing and advice on project teams. Each day that week the group of us will post to our own blogs giving the best advice we have on how to bring kaizen to temporary organizations — project teams.

All You Gotta Do Is Ask I am really excited about this project. Norman Bodek, godfather of lean and co-author of three books on the subject, is guiding us. You might be familiar with his book The Idea Generator: Quick 'n Easy kaizen, co-authored with Bunji Tosawa. That book and All You Gotta Do Is Ask, co-authored with Chuck Yourke, are great resources to learn about kaizen.

So you might want to know who else will be involved? You'll have to wait for that. Over the next two weeks I'll introduce you to each of them, one day at a time starting tomorrow.

When we're done, we'll compile the 35+ postings along with a few more essays and a kaizen appendix into a handbook that we'll publish early 2006. Help us make this a great resource. Write me with your questions and your requests for topics. And once we post, comment freely. We'll incorporate your comments, questions, and advice in the handbook.

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1 Kathleen Fasanella November 21, 2005 at 9:29 am

If I could, I’d submit my site for inclusion; I write a great deal about lean manufacturing particularly as applied to apparel manufacturing (specificity is good). In fact, if you do a search for lean+blog, I come up second :)

There seems to be increasing interest in ZARA, the lean Spanish manufacturer-retailer and I’ve written about them extensively (judging from site stats, Inditex visits my site quite often) so I’d suggest my site is a resource if people are interested in fast manufacturing and retailing.

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