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Recently, I added a new step to my kaizen event standard work.

Imagine that you were only allowed one chart (or board) at the gemba. What would you pick? What is the Swiss Army knife (I'm more of a Leatherman Multitool fan myself) of charts that gives you insight into process adherence and process performance?

Kaizen event team selection is a critical driver of event effectiveness. Selection criteria includes team representation (to promote diversity, perspective, ownership, and development opportunities), size, chemistry, kaizen experience, and behavioral and technical skills.

Understanding the current reality within the context of time and space is extremely critical. The time observation form is a powerful tool to facilitate direct observation.

This may be a blinding flash of the obvious, but while leaders typically work hard, it’s a different type of work. Most leaders are engaged in a lot of firefighting.

I'm guessing very few have asked that question before. Conscience is a judgment of reason by which we recognize the quality of an act before, during or after we do it.

One of kaizen's unofficial taglines is, "Just do it." And it makes sense. We try to spin the PDCA wheel as fast and as frequently as possible in order to experiment and quickly learn and make adjustments.

Training Within Industry (TWI), specifically the JM or Job Methods program (one of three within TWI), is a seed of kaizen. TWI, so successfully applied in the U.S.

Ron Pereira has been gracious enough to allow me to guest blog on his LSS Academy blog.