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A Rapid Improvement Event is a one-week focused effort that is highly facilitated and concentrates a dedicated team on getting
results immediately. These events have applications in both offices and manufacturing operations and consistently yield tremendous, real-time improvement.
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The Rapid Improvement Event (or Blitz) is a highly facilitated program that focuses on rapid operational
improvement in a specific work area through the application of lean tools and techniques.
Key Elements
- Time Frame = A few days to one week per event (usually)
- Team Size = 4 to 7
- Yield = Significant annualized return
- Effective in factories and offices
Steps
- Identify target area, define objectives and scope
- Train the team
- Analyze current state
- Perform structured problem solving and define future state
- Implement and innovate solutions
- Report out and examine metric linkage (how to get the savings)
Benefits
- Yields significant financial and operational benefits (usually in excess of $75,000 annualized per event)
- Energizes the workforce with the possibility of dramatic improvement, achieved in a short period of time
- Provides excellent training in lean, through the train-do approach
In Practice
The typical rapid improvement event program consists of 3 to 5
weeks of on-site Kaufman Global support. The first week is a planning week followed by
a series of rapid improvement events and LDMS® implementation. In addition, we regularly use rapid
improvement events to achieve lightning results in the context of more comprehensive implementation projets.
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