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Effective Continuous Improvement: Harnessing the Kaizen Approach to Create a System for Effective Change

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Is your change management approach delivering the results you need?Continuous Improvement, or CI, is a heavily used term that often doesn't deliver the results that are hoped for. Common approaches to CI often focus on supporting businesses to eliminate their immediate problems and just become 'OK' in terms of business performance.

However, most people find that it is much more difficult to use these same approaches to move from 'good' to 'excellent'. Furthermore sustaining the improvement approach can be difficult if you don’t have some kind of systematic approach.

A simple systems approachFrom his past work with clients who have previously struggled to make the move from 'good' to 'excellent', Giles Johnston, a business improvement consultant, has devised a simple method to systematically generate new improvement ideas.

Even if your team have never heard of ‘lean manufacturing’ or ‘kaizen’ before, a good CI approach can help your staff to identify and generate ideas that can streamline, simplify and improve your business. From the most junior person to the most senior within your business these simple and straightforward methods can provide new insights and ideas almost immediately.

Downloadable templates includedThis short book gives you a step-by-step guide to getting the most out of continuous improvement. It shares approaches and ideas on how to best use CI for your business. Quick start templates are also provided (via a download link in the resources section) so you can get started straight away with these methods.

The book

Five strategies to generate improvement ideas in your business, so that you won't ever struggle to create opportunities for improvement.

Ideas on managing the improvements once they have been identified, so that the expected benefits become a reality.

Simple strategies to help you make the most of these approaches.

Look insideSo, if you want some new ideas for improving your business and need to get your team involved then this concise change management book is for you. Use the 'Look Inside' option to view some of the early pages of this book (by clicking on the cover above) or download a free sample to get started right away.

Continuous improvement doesn't have to occur in uncontrolled fits and bursts, it really can be a meaningful and controlled part of your business improvement strategy.

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2013

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