kaizen, continuous improvment - Answers ___ comes from two Japanese words
KAI to take apart
ZEN to make good
____
kaizen blitz - Answers ___ lightening fast events and make them good
small, routinely, sustained, long, improvement - Answers Spirit of Kaizen Blitz:
___ incremental changes
___ applied and ____
over a ___ period
result in significant overall ___
well defined, kaizen burst - Answers Kaizen Blitz should solve ___ needs, but would not use to
run an entire project you would use the event to pull together people to work action items ____
Not appropriate for everything.
planning, implementation, perfection, root cause, empowerment, teamwork - Answers Kaizen
Blitz success:
Moving rapidly from ___ to ____
Continuous progress rather than waiting to find ___
Addressing the ___ of waste
___ and ____
great meetings, multi day, multiple - Answers Kaizen Blitz = ____
Option 1: ____ event (common in past; familiar)
Option 2: ___ meetings (more common; entire cannot disappear for an entire week)
mind, positive, treated, position, rank, dumb, safe, process - Answers Kaizen Blitz Rules:
1. Keep an open ___
, 2. Maintain a ___ attitude
3. Treat others as you'd like to be ___
4. One person, one voice - no ___ or ___
5. There is no such thing as a ___ question
6. Create a ___ environment
7. Understand the ___
prepare, conduct, present, complete - Answers Kaizen Blitz 4 phases:
1.
2.
3.
4.
prepare, well defined, participants, logistics, meaningful, notice, expectations, roles - Answers
___ equals success (3 to 1)
Leader:
Identify the ___ need
Identify the right ___
___ - right room or online tool
Create a ___ agenda
Provide proper ___ and ___
Assign all required meeting ___
Prepare for a GREAT EVENT!!!
leader, timekeeper, minute taker, scribe, engaged participant, optional facilitator - Answers Key
Meeting Roles
1. ___ - calls the meetings and is responsible
2. ___ - keeps everyone on tract
3. ___ - takes notes