"Keeping learning new things" - How true!

Some good discussion for our innovation team.

Can we use this concept in DC, Pressroom & POD?

Do you agree with this priority?

It isn't easy. But everything is not important. Only a few things truly are.

This pen-stroke solution is a great example of the smallest of steps we can take towards improving quality. The next steps may include making the using white-on-black or yellow-on-black marks to visually stand out, creating and posting one-point lessons around the machines, and starting an autonomous maintenance routine to prevent the marks fading or drift out of the target zone. These are just a few examples of the thousands of chalk marks that we can all make once we realize that the these smallest steps towards quality improvement are the most important ones in the long-term.

Can anybody see a place where we could experiment with this approach?

I struggle with how to do this in the more "administrative" type departments.

Rather lengthy, but what can we pick up from the article or the videos?

Can we learn anything from these videos?

Does kaizen require volunteerism to reach the highest level of success? Or does it require management mandated 100% participation? What if you are just starting an effort to have people in your organization formally improve their work? Do you recruit volunteers, or mandate improvement by each and every person? Does this evolve into an act of coercion, where people are not fully engaged with the act of continuous improvement - but only doing so to keep the boss off their backs?

I particularly like - "You don't understand anything until you do it".

There is always a better way to do anything!

Perhaps some of our not so successful Kaizen's lie in this area.

How can we remember to use these tips in our daily operations?