When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don't look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba--business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services--the areas of your business where, as the author puts it, the "real action" takes place.

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management

Business & Money

Imai, Masaaki

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The definitive, fully up-to-date guide to continuous improvement in the workplace
"An updated version of a classic book that shares a wealth of new healthcare examples and case studies from around the world. The methods in this book will help you improve quality and safety, reduce waiting times, and improve the long-term financial position of your organization. Highly recommended!" --Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and coauthor of Healthcare Kaizen
"Every business faces the iron triangle of quality, cost, and delivery. Conventional thinking claims you cannot have all three. Not only does Mr. Imai turn that thinking on its head, but he shows you exactly how to do it." -- Matthew E. May, author of The Elegant Solution and The Laws of Subtraction
"Masaaki Imai has done it again. The second edition of his famous book not only describes all the tools necessary for any type of business to implement a lean strategy but also includes a large number of excellent case studies." -- Art Byrne, author of The Lean Turnaround
Written by Masaaki Imai, pioneer of modern business operational excellence and founder of the Kaizen Institute, Gemba Kaizen, Second Edition is an in-depth revision of this renowned, bestselling work. The book reveals how to implement cost-effective, incremental improvements in your most critical business processes. Global case studies from a wide range of industries demonstrate how gemba kaizen has been successfully used to:
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<li>Maximize capacity and reduce inventory at Unga Limited, one of Kenya's largest flour-milling operations</li>
<li>Change the IT culture at Achmea, a large European insurance firm</li>
<li>Exceed customer expectations at Walt Disney World in the United States</li>
<li>Improve quality at Inoue Hospital in Japan</li>
<li>Transform retail processes at Sonae MC, Portugal's largest employer</li>
<li>Practice daily kaizen at Tork Ledervin, a weaving plant in Brazil</li>
<li>Stamp out muda at Sunclipse, an industrial packaging distributor in the United States</li>
<li>Manage quality improvement by total workforce involvement at Xuji Group Corporation, an electrical manufacturer in China</li>
<li>Implement gemba kaizen at many other companies worldwide</li>
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To thrive in today's competitive global economy, organizations need to operate more effectively and profitably than ever before. Developing problem solvers, increasing productivity, improving quality, and reducing waste are essential success factors. Proven strategies for achieving these goals are included in this pioneering guide.
This comprehensive resource offers detailed coverage of important gemba kaizen topics, including:
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<li>Quality, cost, and delivery in the gemba</li>
<li>The five steps of workplace organization</li>
<li>Identifying and eliminating muda--any non-value-adding activity</li>
<li>Visual management</li>
<li>Supervisors' roles in the lean workplace</li>
<li>Gemba managers' roles and accountability in sustaining high performance</li>
<li>Just-in-time and total flow management</li>
<li>The CEO’s role in leading a kaizen culture</li>
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The methods presented in Gemba Kaizen, Second Edition reveal that when management focuses on implementing kaizen (incremental, continuous improvement) in the gemba (the worksite) unique opportunities can be discovered for increasing the success and profitability of any organization.

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition

For the professional manager or student of management, a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices that can be put to work. KAIZEN uses more than 100 examples in action and contains 15 corporate case studies.

Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success

International

McGraw–Hill Education

The groundbreaking follow-up from the bestselling author of Gemba Kaizen, and pioneer of “continuous improvement” operational excellence. Whether you run a business or practice Lean, this groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to transform your company in measurable ways. The founder of the Kaizen Institute, Masaaki Imai introduces his revolutionary Flow, Synchronization, and Leveling Assessment (FSLA)―a first-of-its-kind Lean paradigm for measuring and improving operational performance. This new business classic teaches you:•The importance of assessing corporate performance from both the financial and operational standpoints •How to identify basic structures of the ideal production systems•Proven ways of implementing FSLA to both measure operational performance and drive cost-effective, incremental improvements in their most critical business processes 

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

Industries

Collaborating for Change: Gemba Kaizen

Heymans, Brian

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Kaizen. Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg der Japaner im Wettbewerb.

Wirtschaftsverlag

Como Implementar Kaizen En Sitio De Trabajo

Imai

Economics

McGraw-Hill Spanish

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