A Team Leader’s Guide to Kaizen Events , a new guide from Breakthrough Management Press serves as an armchair coach for those who are leading lean kaizen events within their organization,” says Neil DeCarlo, Breakthrough Management Group’s vice president of publishing. The guide includes:

• A synopsis of kaizen, which means “change for the better” and is used to create a bias toward action, and the SCORE methodology—select, clarify, organize, run, evaluate
• Descriptions of the functions performed by team leaders of kaizen events
• A roadmap and step-by-step instructions for moving through a kaizen event
• Four appendixes with templates and matrixes
• A CD-ROM with templates, motivational posters, team charters and worksheets

Co-authored by lean master William Wes Waldo and Tom Jones, BMG’s vice president of training and consulting, this guide provides users with the skills needed to implement kaizen events that change a company for the better.

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