The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen

by Norman Bodek and Bunji Tozawa

Book Overview

The goal of this book is to guide improvement activities throughout the organization: to use creative ideas from all employees to serve both internal and external customers, to unlock the hidden... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971243697
• ISBN13: 9780971243699
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: PCs Press
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Ideas for any Business

This book gives excellent common sense suggestions to involve employees in improving any type of business in a quick and easy manner.

Very Useful

I am actually using this book to help me implement a Kaizen program in a Fortune 500 company. It's useful and quite a good book. The author has been very helpful!

A profound approach to empowering your employees

The Quick and Easy Kaizen system recognizes that every worker has hidden creative talent locked inside of them. Toyota successfully harnesses employee innovation, with over 1.5 million employee suggestions implemented each year. This represents about $300 million in annual savings that go straight to the bottom line. In his book, Norman Bodek discusses how the Quick and Easy Kaizen system becomes a powerful tool for bringing forth numerous small but significant improvement ideas from all employees. A cultural transformation powered by employee commitment to continuous improvement is critical to your lean journey. Our clients have found Mr. Bodek to be an inspiring and effective resource, providing the experience, inspiration, and tools for a cultural transformation to continuous improvement. In addition to being a LEAN Affiliate, Mr. Bodek is the founder of Productivity Inc. / Productivity Press and has published over 400 books including 100 Japanese books in English. In 1988 he initiated the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence. Mark Edmondson President www.LEANaffiliates.com

Fundamentals for improvements in operating effectiveness

For quite a long time, I try to figure out a strategy that can support the three generic ones such as low cost, differentiation and focus scope and go beyond for a corporate. Bunji Tozawa and Norman Bodek's The Idea Generator: Quick and Easy Kaizen offers a fundamental solution for my question. It did convince me why small, continuous, and alternative-seeking changes can benefit companies as well as individuals in them. Further, by volumes of examples and how-to information, I found their way matching the core idea in complex adaptive system theory: Creating an impact sensitive and interaction friendly environment in an organization can trigger more effectiveness than simply summing up the individual efforts respectively. They prove that by accumulating quick and easy improvements, the power and profit Kaizen activities result in will go beyond our imagination. I love this book and highly recommend it to the management level and frontline people in an organization together work for their viable future.

A Guidebook for Improving Organization Performance

In any organization, all of us are smarter than any of us. Here is a book about all of us. Wisdom resides not only in senior-level people, but widely throughout the organization. How can organizations draw on the huge amount of knowledge, experience, and wisdom of everyone in the organization and apply this capability to continuously improve organization performance? The Idea Generator; Quick and East Kaizen, by Bunji Tozawa and Norman Bodek describes how, with examples from American companies that use these methods. The book draws on experience in Japan and in the United States to show how everyone in the organization can be involved in improving the way work is done, and achieving organization success. While the concepts and methods presented in this book are not yet in widespread use, they're growing. The book cites company experience showing how they create competitive advantage, and a motivated, high-morale organization. I highly recommend this book for everyone concerned with participation, motivation, and world-class operations. William F. Christopher Company Executive Author, Award-Winning Business Books Fellow, World Academy of Productivity Science