Global KAIZEN™ Award

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Assessment

Each Kaizen Institute business unit will nominate the winner of one of its local KAIZEN™ Award categories for the Global KAIZEN™ Award. The nominee (organization) is evaluated on its KAIZEN™ maturity. The assessment is observation-based, conducted by experienced assessors at the client premises, evaluating the application of the five KAIZEN™ principles:

#	KAIZEN™ Principle	Application Example
1	Create customer value	a) The organization knows the customer needs by market segment. b) The organization is dedicated to quality and to fulfil customer expectations.
2	Let it flow	a) Leaders know how to design, create, manage and improve processes. b) Staff members understand the concepts of muda (waste), mura (variability) and muri (difficulty).
3	Be gemba oriented	a) The workplace is organized for efficiency, visual management is used to make waste, standards and behaviors visible. b) Leaders go to the place of work to understand problems first hand.
4	Empower people	a) Business objectives are deployed (cascaded) throughout the organization. b) All leaders share KAIZEN™ skills and role model a KAIZEN™ mindset as they develop their teams.
5	Be scientific and transparent	a) Management decisions are based on the long-term vision. b) Decision making and problem solving is based on real data from gemba (gemba gembutsu).

Besides scrutinizing the robustness of the five KAIZEN™ principles, the ‘Benefits tracking’ section evaluates what the organization has put in place to ensure employees know where the organization is heading, how they have progressed, and how customers and the organization is benefitting from the KAIZEN™ efforts.

Evaluation

The Global KAIZEN™ Award committee, consisting of participating Kaizen Institute business unit executives and Kaizen Institute Global Operations directors, will evaluate and assess the data of nominees for the Global KAIZEN™ Award and will decide on the raking of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Global KAIZEN™ Award recipient. If needed, nominees will be re-visited for an on-site assessment by a representative of Kaizen Institute Global Operations.

Application

Application pdf

Please complete the application form no later than June 30^th, 2020 and submit via email to your local Kaizen Institute partner at awards-nl@kaizen.com.
Nomination Guidelines:

Submitted projects shall not be older than two years
Candidate projects can be previously recognized by external awards (not awarded by Kaizen Institute)
Additional information about the project may be submitted (e.g. indicators, photos, movies, etc.)
Applications submitted after June 30^th, 2020 will not be admitted for consideration