Save Costs, Improve your Bottom Line with Kaizen Business Methods
What is Kaizen?
Kaizen is a business improvement concept that means continuous
improvement, step by step change for the better. It involves putting the customer first, where value is defined from the perspective of the customer.
Through the Kaizen
approach efficiency is achieved as organisations only build the right quantity of the right service at the right time. Find out more here:
Here at Kai-zen Change for Good we continue to support all types of businesses during these challenging times. Our latest Kaizen Blitz Workshop, "Lean Thinking & Reducing Waste" offers businesses support to reduce costs and waste through implementing Kaizen Lean Thinking.
Why Businesses Urgently Need a Kaizen Blitz
In response to the pandemic businesses invested in technology and digitalised their services, and new trends in AI mean that businesses are rapidly undergoing change. AI automates repetitive and time-consuming tasks, allowing employees to focus on more complex and strategic activities. By streamlining processes and reducing manual labour, AI technologies significantly enhance productivity and efficiency in the workplace.
"Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency" (Kaizen Made Easy)
The challenge is knowing where those efficiencies and waste reduction opportunities are. Without first reviewing the current business systems and processes first it is difficult to know where technology and AI can add value to business processes.
"No matter how good our results look, there is still waste hidden in our processes, and we can never afford to stop looking for continuous improvement opportunities" (Kaizen Made Easy)
The first step, then, is to bring together employees to identify the business process steps (value chain mapping) from start to finish to then identify where waste can be reduced at each step. Kaizen is a business method that ensures that all employees are involved in business improvement processes - thus ensuring that people are happy at work! And it is from here that waste can be identified and strategies developed to better utilise technology and AI to improve business performance. Using kaizen methods brings the following benefits:
1. Employees are happy - greater employee satisfaction
2. Digital solutions add value to business processes
3. Cost savings = more profit
4. Customer satisfaction
5. Sustainable business solutions
"Kaizen is a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo" (Kaizen Made Easy)
You can find out more about how to identify waste in your company by watching our short Kaizen Blitz video, Continuous Improvement: Lean Thinking & Reducing Waste:
We also run and facilitate short practical workshops using kaizen lean thinking methods. Contact us to book a Kaizen Blitz session - for a small investment we will help you to make savings, increase your reserves and increase your bottom line. The Blitz sessions are also for the private and public sectors. Sign up to receive news and updates or book a call today to continuously improve with kaizen.