Kaizen Innovative Methods

Toyota uses innovative methods to empower its workforce and improve the performance of the enterprise. ...

... "Toyota, whose $1.3 billion plant near Blue Springs will be the company's eighth North American assembly plant, is often associated kaizen, or continuous improvement, which is associated with its Toyota Production System. " ...

Via Trading Markets: Methods of Innovation

Six Sigma Quality Improvement Spurs Growth

Workforce involvement in quality initiatives drives company growth. The free flow of communications keeps the improvement ideas fresh, exciting, and meaningful to the current business dynamics. ...

... "Taylor, now president and CEO, mandates that each of his 160 employees participates in quality systems, sounding-board meetings and the continuous improvement of the company. This team-based initiative has led to revenue growth of 10 percent in each of the past five years. " ...

Via Smart Business: Wright Tool Co.

Innovative Thinking Integrated With Culture

Innovation is needed to differentiate corporate and product performance in the global economy. Lean principles can be extended to the growth agenda to support building an innovative culture and workforce. ...

... "What is really needed today is what I call systematic and lean innovation. That is, you have to make innovative thinking part of the entire corporate culture. " ...

Via Oakland Business Review on MLive: Lean Innovation Summit

Kaizen Talent Management

Leverage the talents of your workforce to position your enterprise for success. ...

... "Quick and Easy Kaizen, a marvelous technique developed in Japan to open up people's hidden creative talent. " ...

Via IndustryWeek: Ninth Waste

National Raking Attributed to Six Sigma

Fitch Ratings rates Valley Baptist Medical Center and considers the enterprise's management systems in its assessment. ...

... "Lastly, management has made Six Sigma its top strategic initiative in order to maximize performance and patient satisfaction throughout the health system. Management credits the Six Sigma method with Valley Baptist Hospital-Harlingen's #1 national ranking in the treatment of heart failure by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the recent pay-for performance demonstration project. More than 340 Valley Baptist employees have been trained in Six Sigma methodologies including 27 physicians. " ...

Via Fitch Ratings: Baptist Health System's, Texas, $94MM Ser 2007 Revs BBB; Outlook Stable

Small Continuous Change, Entrepreneurs Toolbox

Entrepreneurs can sustain business success by enrolling the workforce in many, small improvements, using the kaizen style of management. ...

... "Shortly after World War II, Japanese companies created a management concept called Kaizen. The concept of Kaizen is to make small continuous changes and it includes everyone from the CEO to the janitors. " ...

Via USA Today: Entrepreneur Advice on Business Success

Kaizen Change Empowers Shopfloor

TriMas Corp embraces kaizen principles as it shifts accountability for continuous improvement to shopfloor workforce. ...

... "In 2006 it was the inaugural winner of the Toyota Kaizen Blitz Marathon for reducing waste levels. The changes generally happen in a short order of time, Mr Saunders said. And from the perspective of management it empowers people doing the job to make a change. Kaizen change is driven by shop floor or office employees. " ...

Via Star News: TriMas Corp Goes Lean

Lean Enterprise: Workforce Motivation

Kaiser builds strong workforce relationships with lean enterprise principles. ...

... "Union members also are invited to take part in teams that identify and implement ways to bring the plant closer to its lean manufacturing goals. " ...

Via Newark Advocate: Lean Plan Strengthens Workforce Relations

Lean Transformation Uses Workforce Furlough For Aircraft Manufacturer

Columbia uses worker furlough to permit the retooling necessary to transform the organization to a lean manufacturing process. ...

... "The furlough allows Columbia to execute necessary measures to refine production and more aggressively pursue Lean Manufacturing and Lean Enterprise process improvements. The company's present expectation is to recall the furloughed employees after a brief four to six week period. " ...

Via KTVZ: Columbia Aircraft Lean Manufacturing Transformation