Top organisations are awarded for the outstanding implementation of KAIZEN™ principles and practices.
Kaizen Institute India is pleased to announce the Integrated Manufacturing Excellence Initiative (KAIZEN™ Award India) 4th Edition to recognise superior KAIZEN™ and Lean organisations. Top organisations will be awarded for their outstanding, innovative, and effective implementation of KAIZEN™ principles and practices.
IMexI is a premier program of facilitating operational excellence with a firm rooting in continuous improvement ideology. It is for those seeking to implement an effective and a sustainable Continuous Improvement program in their organisations. Has been there and done that and is now advising clients on where and how to consolidate their efforts for better benefit.
Categories
Excellence in Applying KAIZEN™ Principles
In this category, the applicant (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.
Advisory Panel
Vinod Grover Managing Director & Founder, Kaizen Institute, SAIN
Ajay Shankar IAS (1973), Former Secretary – DIPP, Chairman NPC, Member Secretary, NMCC, Member of Board, L&T & Others
Dr. N Ravichandran Manufacturing Guru, Executive Director & CEO (Retd), Lucas TVS Ltd.
Vijay Kalra Head – Mahindra Institure of Quality, Chairman – Central Safety Council for Group & Former CEO – MVML & CMO (AS) at Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
Y S Shashidhar Advisor, Dubai Holdings, UAE & Former Partner & Managing Director, Frost & Sullivan
Pradeep Banerjee Executive Director (Retd), Hindustan Unilever Ltd
Dr. Sarita Nagpag Former DDG & Former Principal Counsellor at CII
Ajay Tandon Former MD & CEO, TATA Autocomp Systems Ltd Former CEO, Tata Johnson Controls
Applications
Qualifiers
Based on the on-site assessments, the qualifiers in various medallion zones in IMexI 2020 are given below
Contact
If you have any questions regarding the award procedure or the event please contact:
Kaizen Institute India Ellisbridge Near Mithakhali Six Roads 380006 Ahmedabad – India
