The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

by Karen Martin, Mike Osterling

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events, cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process,

Genres: Business, Leadership

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 5, 2007

About the author

I've published four business books. Value Stream Mapping is now available for order: www.bit.ly/VSMbk. The Outstanding Organization (www.bit.ly/TOObk), represents my foray into hard cover leadership books. My other two, Metrics-Based Process Mapping (www.bit.ly/MBPMbk) and The Kaizen Event Planner (www.bit.ly/TKEPbk), contain practical tools that support an organization's journey to "outstandingness."

In addition to writing, I keynote frequently and maintain a full client load. For more information, please visit my website www.ksmartin.com and join us on any of the social media sites listed on my home page.

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In addition to my passion for organizational improvement, I love food and wine, yoga, and power walking along the beach.

Reviews

[Robert Chapman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certainly a good guide for how to plan and execute a Kaizen event. I gave a lower rating as I found it was too wordy in many places and could have delivered the same message in a lot less text. If you are new to Kaizen events then this book is a good reference.