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The journey of continuous improvement (Kaizen) has lead my family down a deliberate path of growth, evolution, and discovery.
My fiancé and I have been able to break our life into 90 day goal driven periods that put us front and center with each other and our family. With a specific 3 day agenda we share discovery and growth together setting up the next 90 days for success.
An IT guy with a heart for all things efficient and organized. Mike has become a LEAN thinker and through the principles of Kaizen his company explores delivering IT services to our customers. He is active in the community and with business development from chairing the board of the local Chamber of Commerce to teaching the principles of LEAN to local business owners and entrepreneurs. Total Solutions has been a local employer for 18 years.
KAIZEN PLANNING AS THE BASIS
“Kaizen” is the philosophy of continuous improvement. Kaizen is used as a tool in lean manufacturing with the goal of eliminating waste by continuously improving standardized processes, equipment, and other procedures for carrying out daily production.
Kaizen is a Japanese principle of time management. It is common for people to view goals as needing huge immediate changes and long uninterrupted chunks of time. Kaizen is the idea that every task can be broken down into a series of small changes and a longer period of time.
KAIZEN PLANNING AS THE BASIS
Kaizen translates as ‘improvement’ or ‘continuous change for the better’. The idea is to eliminate overly hard periods of work, spreading the goals over a period of time and making the process of whatever the work is more efficient. It is a philosophy of work that makes Japan the manufacturing giant it is today and is used around the globe by many top competing companies.
So how do we apply this to the kitchen? Applying many efficient tiny goals to achieve the big objective in the most energy-efficient manner possible. Kaizen is all about moving forward in an interval that shows instant, tangible results as a form of motivation. Set a timer for one minute. You can work for a minute, no problem right? After you set to work and the timer goes off, look at what you’ve done in the minute. Could this have been done in a better manner? Is there something that takes precedent?
Take the time to ask yourself questions about what you are doing during your break. As you resume to work you can move the timer up to be a longer length of time. After every interval, look at what you have accomplished. Its pretty impressive right? as the cycles shift forward, you’ll find yourself doing the tasks in a better and better manner. This incentive will keep you on track and motivate you to finish. It could even motivate you to continue working in other necessary practices.
KAIZEN PLANNING AS THE BASIS
