3 Faces of KaizenKiro Harada

Attractor Inc.

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Are you doing Kaizen?

How’s your Kaizen?

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Productivity # of Kaizen

You need to Learn How Kaizen Works

Fix Leaks

Make it Flow

Create a New Stream

3 Faces of Kaizen

Fix Leaks

Make it Flow

Create a New Stream

Fix Leaks

Make sure your stream creates value:

Slow Down / Stop

Observe How your Process Works

Focus on Effectiveness

Efficiency doesn’t matter

Fix Leaks

Never Try to Accelerate

Make you highly Efficient in Producing Wastes

Software with Bugs (Waste)

Test with Bugs (Waste)

Feature Nobody Uses (Wate)

Don’t Fix your Product

Fix your Process

Toyoda Type G Automatic Loom (1924)

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This loom was special:

It automatically stops when a thread is broken.

It only produces good product.

STOP if you find any quality problems.

Make It FlowYour Stream is Now Creating Values Constantly

Make It Flow:

Remove impediments

Reduce necessary inputs (Resource / Actions / Time)

Now Efficiency Matters

Value Adding Time / Incidental Time / Waste Time

Value Adding Processes

Eliminate Wastes

Keep Quality and Output Amount Same

Never try to improve Quality. Never try to increase Output.

Make it Flow

Training within Industry

Job Methods

E - Eliminate C - Combine R - Rearrange S - Simplify

To make your work

Easier and Safer

Never try to Accelerate

Remove Impediments

Make IT SAFER and EASIER

Then You will Naturally Accelerates

Create a New StreamYour Value Stream Smoothly Flows

You Feel Safe and Easy to Work

You have spare Time, Resource and Energy.

Time to Consider if you can make a new stream:

Uncontinuous Process Change

Change of Product Definition

Create a New Stream

It’s time for Fun.

You can try whatever you like.

Current stream flows safely and easily.:

You already have spare time, resource and energy.

Try Something Crazy.

But never try to Accelerate

Design a new stream to deliver better quality and value

But still makes a lot of wastes.

Observe carefully.

Effectiveness and Quality matter.

If you are confident your new stream outperforms your existing stream, face ‘Fix Leaks’ again.

If something went wrong…

Always get back to the previous phase.

Never try to do the multiple phases at the same time.

Dangerous for your product, your process and you.

Thank you.Never never try to Accelerate. Be Safe to continuously Kaizen.

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Kiro Harada

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