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Kaizen Blitz Planner
Plan a short improvement event on one step, or record a quick fix: the measure before and after, the team, the week, the new standard with its owner, and the check 30 days later.
This tool also runs as a stage in a playbook, which takes you through several tools in order:
- Speed up a slow business process Stage 3 of 4: how do you fix that step quickly? Start at stage 1
Not following the playbook?
This stage builds on stage 2. Find the constraint in stage 2 first, or choose your progress file under "Coming back?". You can also plan the event here on its own.
How will you make the change?
Stage 2 found that the constraint is a rule. A rule can be changed in a meeting: a quick fix is enough.
The measure
One number that shows whether the change worked, measured before and after.
The event
The team
- The people who do the step, one person from the step before it and one from the step after.
- Someone with the authority to change a form or a rule on the spot. Six to eight people is enough.
The change
For a rule: the new rule. For a small fix: what people will do differently.
Your notes never leave your browser
The team, the notes and the new standard stay on your computer and in your progress file. To write the diagnosis, only the numbers and which fields are filled are sent to our server. How it works
The week, and the new standard
The test
Tried on real items during the event, and measured.
The new standard
What people now do, in a few lines anyone on the step could follow. Include what happens when something goes wrong.
The change
Before and after
The week
The new standard
The 30-day check
Save your progress
Download your progress file to continue from this point any time, on any computer: choose it under "Coming back?" at the start of the tool. Each new file includes everything so far, including the earlier stages when they are connected, so keep the latest one. Your work stays in this browser only until you close it.
Not saved yet.
Take your results with you
A PDF of the change, the team, the week, the measure before and after, the new standard and the diagnosis.
About the tool
Why it exists
Change one step this week, and make sure it stays changed
A Kaizen Blitz is a short, focused improvement event, usually five days, in which a team from every function the step touches scopes, measures, tests and puts in place a change to one process before the week ends. Most gains from these events fade within months, so the event's real end is a check 30 days later.
This tool works on its own, and as stage 3 of our playbook for speeding up a slow business process, where it picks up the constraint and the plan from stage 2. For the method, see our guide to the Kaizen Blitz.
The method
How the tool works
An event or a quick fix. A rule, or a small and obvious fix, needs no event: write the change down, give it an owner and check it after 30 days. Anything else gets a short event with the people who do the step.
The team. The people who do the step, one person from the step before and one from the step after, and someone who can change a form or a rule on the spot. The tool flags a team without the step's own people or without that authority.
Tested, then written down. The change is tried on real items during the event and measured. By the last day it is written down as the standard, with one owner, and the 30-day check is booked.
The 30-day check. Come back with your progress file and answer two questions: is the standard still followed, and where is the measure now? The tool says whether the gain held, is slipping or has faded.
What leaves your computer. The team, the notes and the standard stay in your browser and your progress file. To write the diagnosis, the page sends our server only the numbers and which fields are filled, and the server keeps nothing.