Project Kaizen Co-Blogging Themes
November 27th, 2005 by HalArticle Series - Project kaizen Co-Blogging
- Intro to kaizen for Project Teams
- Norman Bodek, Godfather of Lean
- Project kaizen Co-Blogging Themes
- Jon Miller, Lean Leader
- Chuck Frey, Innovation Maven
- Joe Ely, Lean Practitioner
- Bill Waddell, Lean Provocateur
- Mark Graban, Lean Commentary
- Who's the Project kaizen "Plus One"?
- What is (Project) kaizen?
- gemba Project kaizen
- Adopt Project kaizen to Tap Ingenuity
- Kathleen Fasanella Is Monday's Project kaizen "Plus One" Blogger
- Project kaizen Is Team Sport
- Project kaizen in Workstreams Increases Throughput
- Grim Reader: Project kaizen Co-Blogger for Wednesday
- Quick 'n Easy Kaizen: Winning with Project kaizen
- Revisit and Rethink Your Project with the Project kaizen Blitz
- Accomplishment Fuels More Accomplishment
- We've Just Begun Exploring Project kaizen
The Gang-of-Seven is about a week away from co-blogging on kaizen in project settings — project kaizen. It took us awhile to agree on the themes. With so much we could say, but just five days to do so, we want to give our attention to those few topics that can be immediately useful to the largest group of people. On Monday, December 9, we'll start with answering the most basic question, "Why do project kaizen?" Each day the seven of us will continue from one topic to the next. We selected the themes to meet people in their usual project circumstances. The themes are:
- Monday: The Case for Project kaizen
- We'll answer why do kaizens when you are doing a one-of-a-kind project or when the project team members won't be working together on a regular basis.
- Tuesday: Workgroup kaizen
- Our attention will be on making improvements for sub-team members performing the same type of work.
- Wednesday: Workstream kaizen
- We'll look at making improvements across a subset of a value stream. This often crosses organizational boundaries.
- Thursday: Quick 'n Easy kaizen
- These are improvements that affect the ease of one person doing a job and within ones authority to make a change.
- Friday: kaizen Blitz
- These improvements are focused on the whole project. A blitz takes time and preparation. It is intended to produce a big result.
I mentioned in the announcement that there is not much written on project kaizen. My research since that post leads me to believe that we are breaking new ground. As such, our commentary is prospective even if it is well-grounded in the experience of seven advisors and practitioners. Engage with us as we think and share.
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November 30th, 2005 at 10:08 am
I really look forward to reading more. I hope you will explore the differences and similarities between breakthrough improvements (which seems to be at the heart of many projects) and incremental improvements (which seems to be at the heart of ongoing operations.)
/Garry Booker
www.projectfrontier.com