Table Of Contents hide 1 Kaizen tools are all about improving your performance while minimizing costs wherever possible. 2 1. Hoshin Kanri 3 2. DMAIC 4 3. PDSA 5 4. Value Stream Mapping 6 5. Kanban 7 Incito Consulting and Kaizen Solutions Kaizen tools are all about improving your performance while minimizing costs wherever possible. Your Kaizen strategy determines your growth; the principle belief is that everything can be continuously improved upon. You need great tools to develop your efficiency; here are the top five Kaizen tools to utilize in 2019. 1. Hoshin Kanri Designed to include employees from ever tier of your workplace hierarchy, Hoshin Kanri is focused on action instead of simply setting goals. In a nutshell, it has you ask yourself “How are we going to get there?” instead of just “Where do we want to be?” When you put the momentum of your entire organization behind your efforts, the fundamentals of Kaizen help mold your business as you go with the help of Hoshin Kanri at the frontline. 2. DMAIC Based on five key components, DMAIC is designed to emphasize on measurement as well as analysis, aiding in effective and consistent change management. The five components of this tool include: Defining, measuring, analysis, improvements, and control. 3. PDSA Focusing on hypotheses and analytics, PDSA takes an approach that truly identifies with the philosophy of Kaizen. Through four basic steps, you take a scientific approach to every problem. Make a plan, act on said plan, study and note changes, and adjust accordingly to what did, and what did not work. That’s PDSA. 4. Value Stream Mapping VSM focuses on the end result, and thoroughly maps out how to achieve your goals. Through that process, you better understand what is and is not valuable to the consumer, and through that understanding, you adjust your processes and workflow to decrease costs, improve production, and capitalize on what has been proven to work for your company and your product. 5. Kanban When you take a step back and visualize the entire workflow process from start to finish, you’re able to make more decisive actions, with fewer “in-progress” tasks, stabilizing your work process. This is all about conceptualizing what aspects of your workflow could be improved upon, and creating decisive action to promise results. Incito Consulting and Kaizen Solutions See why our clients utilize the experience at Incito Consulting for Kaizen solutions and much more.
