DAY One: Your Guide to Innovation:

• The W’s of Innovation
• Difference of idea, invention and innovation
• Sources of innovation (manufacturing-driven vs. lead-user driven)
• Key factors for success in innovation
• Organizing for Innovation, and the Effective Use of Individuals and Groups
• Making innovation a repeatable and sustainable system
• How to start an innovation mindset?
• 4 factors to make or break innovation program
• Innovation leaders and communication style for innovation strategy
• Critical roles and competencies for innovation process
• Ideation: Generating Ideas and Divergent Thinking
• Design Thinking and Its Application in Organizations
• Rapid Validation of Ideas and Lean Innovation

Kaizen and Innovation:

• The concept of continuous improvement management.
• The principle of continuous improvement (Kaizen).
• Understand KAIZEN in Japanese
• Development History of the Japanese strategy for continuous improvement (KAIZEN).
• How Does Kaizen lead to innovation?
• How does the KAIZEN strategy work?
• KAIZEN's relationship with the DEMING CYCLE.
• A comparison between KAIZEN and the rest of the continuous improvement processes (TQM, TPM, QC, SIX SIGMA).
• Strengths of the KAIZEN program.

Developing Kaizen Strategy

• Introduction of Kaizen Strategy
• How to Plan for a Kaizen Continuous Improvement Programme?
• Design the Kaizen Culture
• Developing a Kaizen Roadmap
• Planning and Organising Effective Kaizen Events
• Selecting and Handling Projects
• Kaizen Teams formation strategy.
• The Roles of Team Members
• Performance Metrics
• Understand Kaizen PDCA

Your Guide to understand Kaizen Tools:

• Check Sheet
• Pareto Chart
• 7QC Tools and their Application
• Histogram
• Scatter Diagram
• Process Map
• Cause and Effect Diagram
• Process Map
• Control Chart

• Root-cause analysis.
• Fishbone Method.
• (ISHIKAWA)
• Five-question style
• (5 WHYS)
• Optimization-based processing method
• Workshop.

Mapping of Process and Value Stream

• Process Mapping Overview
• Understand Value Stream Mapping Principles and Methodology
• Mapping Tools and Symbols
• Using Process Maps
• Understand and apply Value Stream Maps
• How to Prioritise and Select Kaizen Projects
• Strategies of Developing Project Charter and Project Plan

Apply Kaizen for Process Innovation and Improvement

• Map Current State for the Kaizen Project
• Identify Areas for Improvement
• Map Future State
• Cost and Benefit Analysis of Projects
• Implementing Future State Improvements
• Post-Project Review and Follow-Up
• Identify Further Areas for Improvement/Skills Development
• Project Presentation

Practical Application:

• Applied tools for the continuous improvement process of according to the KAIZEN strategy methodology
• Implementing the Kaizen strategy in the work environment
• Workshops, training, and applications on the Japanese Kaizen program
• Practical applications on industrial processes using kaizen
• Practical applications on office and administrative operations using kaizen
• Practical applications for personal development using kaizen