Strategic KAIZEN: Using Flow, Synchronization, and Leveling [FSL] Assessment to Measure and Strengthen Operational Performance

by Masaaki Imai

Overview

Transform your company’s critical operations—and its destiny—through a powerful kaizen-focused strategy designed for 21st century efficiency

A pioneer of the operational excellence movement that continues to transform businesses across the world, Masaaki Imai takes you to the next step of continuous improvement—developing an overall strategy for measuring your company’s operational performance and improving processes in ways that boost efficiency and gain competitiveness.

In Strategic KAIZEN™, Imai walks you through the process of shifting your focus from volume and speed to his revolutionary Flow, Synchronization, and Leveling (FSL™) evaluation—the most effective Lean paradigm available. At the heart of his approach is the concept of flow—ensuring that each work piece flows between processes without interruption and stagnation. This game-changing guide teaches you:

• The critical importance of assessing corporate performance from both the financial and operational standpoints
• How to identify basic structures of the ideal production and operating systems
• Proven ways of implementing FSL to establish where improvements are most needed and build a strategy that takes you to new heights of corporate performance

Certain to be another instant classic from Masaaki Imai, Strategic KAIZEN™ provides an abundance of case studies from companies that have successfully implemented FSL™ and tangible know-how to improve FSL™ status to achieve a lean summit.

Whether you run a business, serve in public service, or practice Lean, this groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to transform your organization—and help lead it to the top of your industry, trade, or business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260143836
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	06/09/2021
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	676,130
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Masaaki Imai is a pioneer of continuous improvement and of modern business operational excellence. He was a close associate of Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno and first introduced Lean management philosophy to the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

PART I Introducing the Era of Continuous Learning
1 Why Are We Talking About Learning at Work?
2 What Have We Learned About Learning?
3 Building a Learning Culture Means Getting
Comfortable with Change

PART II Five Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way We Work
4 Develop and Foster Agile Learners
5 Feedback Is Fuel for Learning Cultures
6 Think Like a Marketer to Drive Learning and Development
7 Put Learning into the Flow of Work
8 Signal the Value of Learning

PART III Making Upskilling Imperative to Your Business
9 The Business Case for a Learning Culture
10 Care and Maintenance of Your
Learning Culture

Notes

Index