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Best Kaizen Courses 2022
Agile Retrospective: Continuous Improvement+Kaizen wth Scrum
What is the sprint retrospective?
It is a method to increase the efficiency of your team. In my experience, this is the perfect way to learn from the past and use that learning to learn new ones in the sprints to come.
Who should take this course?
Whether you are a novice, an expert, or just someone who wants the answer to the question “what is a sprint retrospective, this is definitely the course for you.”
What will I learn?
In this course, you will learn:
• Concise Sprint Review Overview – Including 29 easy tips for running a successful sprint review
• Facts based on actual industry experience and research – Correct terminology and the use of proper methods are essential to mastering it. My experience in the industry and research on the subject has been used to give you a solid foundation in the most concise way possible.
The course is video-based and no supporting material is required.
How is the course structured?
Each section provides an overview of a particular aspect of running a sprint retrospective and tips on how to organize it well. Examples are included throughout the course along with excellent quality video and audio. Everything is based on real world experience.
You will learn:
A comprehensive overview of retrospectives and how they are used to boost team efficiency and productivity
Learn how to improve sprint reviews
Learn what Scrum is and why it is so powerful to conduct a retrospective
Learn the exact techniques used by professionals in the industry to organize retrospectives
Be confident in improving Scrum performance for any software, service, maintenance or support team
Learn how to use Scrum to run a retrospective WITHOUT paying thousands of $$$$ ££££ for training
Explain which sprint retrospectives will make your team or business more effective
Kaizen Practitioner Masterclass for Quality Management.
Kaizen is an approach to creating continuous improvement based on the idea that small, continuous positive changes can lead to big improvements. . Regardless of the methodology, in an organizational context, the successful use of Kaizen relies on obtaining support for the approach throughout the organization, and from the CEO down.
Featured in the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986. Today, kaizen is recognized around the world as an important pillar of an organization’s long-term competitive strategy. Kaizen is continuous improvement based on certain guiding principles:
Good processes yield good results
Go see for yourself to understand the current situation
Talk with data, manage with facts
Take action to contain and correct the root causes of problems
Work as a team
Kaizen is everyone’s business
And much more!
Taking this course will allow you to successfully deploy the Kaizen methodology and drive business performance. It will introduce you to the structured approach to identify and eliminate waste in businesses to achieve overall improvement.
Best Kaizen Books 2022
Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production System
- Hardcover Book
- Harada, Takehiko (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
The 15 most powerful practices for guiding breakthrough productivity improvements in any company. Management Lessons From Taiichi Ohno provides firsthand knowledge of the tools, techniques, and challenges to implementing the Lean values of the Toyota Production System (TPS) in an organization. Takehiko Harada spent four decades applying Lean principles at Toyota with Taiichi Ohno, and the motivating insights he shares on maintaining a Lean culture are peerless.
More than a set of rules for managers and executives to implement, this personal guidebook is from the heart in an attempt to see other companies enjoy the rewards of the TPS values Toyota leaders dedicated their lives to serving. It puts you in touch with the actual people who learned the key to success is creating a workforce of smiling employees who find purpose to their work.
Real-world examples from Toyota as well as other companies striving to practice TPS/Lean fully demonstrate:
The 15 sayings of Taiichi Ohno―what his words mean and how his philosophies are practiced throughout Toyota
The 4 Stages of Things―a very useful method for visiting the gemba, which is where the action takes place
The managerial role―what management at the frontline should be, how it is different from a supervisor’s duties, and the critical motivational elements to creating a vibrant, happy workplace
Bridging the cultural gap―indispensable wisdom for deploying the Toyota method in non-Japanese cultures
One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
- Maurer Ph.D., Robert (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps. The philosophy is simple: Great change is made through small steps. And the science is irrefutable: Small steps circumvent the brain’s built-in resistance to new behavior.
No matter what the goal—losing weight, quitting smoking, writing a novel, starting an exercise program, or meeting the love of your life—the powerful technique of kaizen is the way to achieve it. Written by psychologist and kaizen expert Dr. Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life is the simple but potent guide to easing into new habits—and turning your life around. Learn how to overcome fear and procrastination with his 7 Small Steps—including how to Think Small Thoughts, Take Small Actions, and Solve Small Problems—to steadily build your confidence and make insurmountable-seeming goals suddenly feel doable.
Dr. Maurer also shows how to visualize virtual change so that real change can come more easily. Why small rewards lead to big returns. And how great discoveries are made by paying attention to the little details most of us overlook. His simple regiment is your path to continuous improvement for anything from losing weight to quitting smoking, paying off debt, or conquering shyness and meeting new people. Rooted in the two-thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching—“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”—here is the way to change your life without fear, without failure, and start on a new path of easy, continuous improvement.
Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition
- Hardcover Book
- Imai, Masaaki (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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:
Maximize capacity and reduce inventory at Unga Limited, one of Kenya’s largest flour-milling operations
Change the IT culture at Achmea, a large European insurance firm
Exceed customer expectations at Walt Disney World in the United States
Improve quality at Inoue Hospital in Japan
Transform retail processes at Sonae MC, Portugal’s largest employer
Practice daily kaizen at Tork Ledervin, a weaving plant in Brazil
Stamp out muda at Sunclipse, an industrial packaging distributor in the United States
Manage quality improvement by total workforce involvement at Xuji Group Corporation, an electrical manufacturer in China
Implement gemba kaizen at many other companies worldwide
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:
Quality, cost, and delivery in the gemba
The five steps of workplace organization
Identifying and eliminating muda–any non-value-adding activity
Visual management
Supervisors’ roles in the lean workplace
Gemba managers’ roles and accountability in sustaining high performance
Just-in-time and total flow management
The CEO’s role in leading a kaizen culture
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.
Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success
- Hardcover Book
- Imai, Masaaki (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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.
Creating a Kaizen Culture: Align the Organization, Achieve Breakthrough Results, and Sustain the Gains
- Hardcover Book
- Miller, Jon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Transforming a culture is far more about emotional growth than technical maturity. Co-written by leaders at the kaizen institute, creating a kaizen culture explains how to enable an adaptive, excellent, and sustainable organization by leveraging core kaizen values and the behaviors they generate. The proven methods presented in this book will dramatically increase your chances of success in implementing a kaizen culture by closing the biggest gaps in the correct understanding of:
What kaizen culture is and why we need it
How everyone, everywhere can practice kaizen every day
The leader’s role in turning kaizen culture into competitive advantage
Based on more than 50 years of combined experience from experts who have successfully used kaizen to lead real transformation in a wide variety of industries, creating a kaizen culture reveals how to propel rapid and sustainable performance improvement. It provides a detailed and illustrated road map to organized kaizen implementation through kaizen events. Real-world examples demonstrate kaizen culture in action at toyota, zappos, wiremold, and many other companies. Featuring valuable insights from kaizen institute leaders, this practical resource covers:
Why we need a kaizen culture
The true meaning of kaizen
The origin of the kaizen event
Kaizen as a strategy in practice
Daily kaizen
Sustaining a kaizen culture
Organizational readiness for kaizen transformation
Facing up to the culture monster
Case studies of real-world kaizen implementation in organizations of various sizes and industrie
Bestsellers
- Raymond, Anthony (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 237 Pages - 11/11/2023 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
- Hardcover Book
- Sarah Harvey (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
- Maurer Ph.D., Robert (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Imai, Masaaki (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Imai, Masaaki (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Takahashi, Haruto (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Kenneth W. Dailey (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 41 Pages - 10/15/2005 (Publication Date) - DW Publishing Co. (Publisher)
- Raymond, Anthony (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 229 Pages - 03/30/2020 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
- Hardcover Book
- Maurer, Robert (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Miller, Robert (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 142 Pages - 10/05/2020 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)