Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by clarifying scope and goal, observing the current process, and setting the new standard and follow-up.
What concrete improvement in the defined process segment can the team implement and measure this week, and embed as a new standard?
The method helps clarify workflows, data, causes, and improvements in a concrete way. It looks for patterns, causes, weak points, or bottlenecks and derives measures from them. The result is captured as a Kaizen charter, waste list, and improvement experiments.
The team follows the steps: clarify scope and goal, observe the current process, identify waste, test improvements, and set the new standard and follow-up. Each step is captured visibly. At the end, a Kaizen charter, waste list, and improvement experiments are available so decisions, tests, or actions can follow directly.
Method sketch for a quick mental model.
The runsheet guides execution with 5 phases, timeboxes, 6 pitfalls, and clear stop criteria.
Open runsheetA Kaizen Event bundles analysis, decision, and implementation into a short intensive period. Participants observe the process, measure the current state, find waste, and test improvements directly on site. The key is the transition from workshop insight to real change in the work standard. That creates visible progress instead of just a list of actions.
Prepare scope, data, process access, and decision authority. Keep the team close to the gemba and translate observations into experiments quickly. Make sure new standards, owners, and follow-ups are recorded, otherwise the improvement will fade.
Compact working template for Kaizen Event with context, input, output artifacts, and next step.
Focused improvement workshop in which a process is analyzed, improved, and standardized in a short cycle.
When and for what do we use this method?
Which data, observations, decisions, or materials are available?
Short notes along the runsheet.
Owner, date, and success signal.
Short decision aid for existing alternatives.
Statt Kaizen Event, wenn du Verbesserungen in kleinen, wiederholbaren Lernschleifen vorantreiben willst.
Statt Kaizen Event, wenn Ursachenanalyse und Maßnahmenplan wichtiger sind als ein mehrtägiger Verbesserungsworkshop.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by planning the problem and goal, applying a small change, and either standardizing or starting the next cycle.
Statt Kaizen Event, wenn du Verbesserungen in kleinen, wiederholbaren Lernschleifen vorantreiben willst.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by defining the problem, capturing the current state, and defining follow-up actions.
Statt Kaizen Event, wenn Ursachenanalyse und Maßnahmenplan wichtiger sind als ein mehrtägiger Verbesserungsworkshop.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by selecting important information, making status visible, and adjusting signals.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by clarifying the process and value definition, observing or mapping the flow, and deriving improvements.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by selecting a process, going to the place of work, and recording improvements.
Turns workflows, data, causes, and improvements into a tangible result by setting process boundaries, collecting steps, and deriving a target process.