all Japanese small- and medium-sized corporations
into a corporation like Google!
What makes Google so great is that all employees have tremendous ideas.
Each employee sets a great theme and think of ways to achieve it with all one’s might.
If one cannot find answers by oneself, the employee looks for other colleagues for help to start discussion.
Everyone works on a project to accomplish their own goal by all means, in a very open corporate culture sustaining a lifestyle of freedom.
Google, of course, is a leading American company, and attracts an excellent talent pool.
It is no surprise that all of them can come up with something tremendous.
What will it be like if all small- and medium-sized corporations in Japan have a corporate culture that allows all employees to come up with an idea in the same way as Google?
Nowadays, while weak yen and deregulation create a favorable environment for the manufacturing industry,
here might be an opportunity for Japanese manufacturing companies to recapture the time of becoming a world leader again.
Please check the biography below if you become curious about consulting services by Yukio Kakiuchi and who he is.
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2020.02.28
[68] The new management approach based on Kaizen by all Let’s wash our hands much more frequently to prevent atypical pneumonia!
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Lead time reduction cannot be achieved by the president alone. Experts alone cannot do it either. This is a theme that really requires the participation of all the employers and all the employees. In a normal company organization, each person can only do his or her job. It is not easy to discuss improvement between different departments, even if they are related to each other. However, on the other hand, people from various departments gather on Genba and discuss their relations and problems about the products, synergistic and surprisingly large effect will be delivered, and in the process you can get high motivation.
The president gather the Kaizen that have been implemented separately by each department and determine themes of overall optimization. Then the small Kaizen by each people gets together and they become big and start supporting the company’s strategy.
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Question : Have you had an experience of this type Kaizen?
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2019.10.28
The new management approach based on Kaizen by all 15 I would like to express my sincere condolences to those affected by heavy rain.
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Top management must know the real site all ways. It is important not only to look around the site, but also to communicate with the people who work at the site. For example, Mr. Toshio Doko, the former president of Toshiba left the following words:
“The organization chart of the company is made the president at the top, followed by general managers, and section managers, but I don’t think that style good. On the job, both the president and employees are standing at the equal level. The main point of the meeting is to do it casually. You can hold a meeting while standing. Communicate with your subordinate when you see his ore her face. ”
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Question: Do you really communicate casually?
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2019.08.30
The new management approach based on Kaizen by all 14 The terrible hot summer seems to be going away little by little. I am happy about it.
If designers talk about their job, you take it as a matter of design. But if operators talk about their job, it is not only their job but also about everything of the company. There are tremendous volume of information on shop floor. It is good to do free discussion with the people from many department with the operators and you can go beyond the walls that exist between the departments.
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Question: Are you talking with the operators in your company?
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2019.08.05
The new management approach based on Kaizen by all 13 It’s hot these days and time of heatstroke has come. Water supply is important!
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For example, all the workers know real things by experience. However, it is important whether those people can open their minds and talk about these experiences. Therefore, the various information that come out of KZ method or Choco-Ann are valuable. And It becomes possible for the president, the departments of design, purchase, sales, technology etc. to accept the experience of them on-site.
The part-time operators may be nervous and may not speak well if called in the president’s office. However, if the president goes to their job site and asks questions about his or her work and Kaizen improvements, the conversation boils. It may be possible only in such a way that the people of wide range roles such as the president, managers in other departments, leaders, full-time and part-time workers gather in one place and talk about one thing.
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Question: Are you talking with wide range of people in your company?
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2019.07.09
The new management approach based on Kaizen by all 12 It’s hot these days and time of heatstroke has come. Water supply is important!
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For that purpose, it is good for everyone to have a habit of implementing Kaizen continuously. Therefore all the employees are required to implement at least one Kaizen a month. The required level of Kaizen is very low. You can copy the Kaizen of your coworkers or just repairing your tool is also Kaizen. Choko-Ann’s rule is very loose and no need to have financial result and you are always praised.
All the people join the Choko-Ann activity and the president find the fact that all the people of the company have the ability to do Kaizen and start improving the management together.****************************************
Question: Can you imagine the Kaizen that copying and repairing is OK?
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2019.06.11
Yukio Kakiuchi’s Kaizen diary 9 As a consultant I can’t get sick once the consulting schedule is fixed with the customer. So I’m thinking about how I can always be healthy.
At that time, I heard that health is made by the three factors of mind, body and food. Therefore, I am doing something good I believe in those three. Let me introduce some of them. First, I would like to write about what I do for the mind.
Since the irritability of the mind is bad for health, I practice mindfulness by breathing slowly and deeply to calm myself every night. The tool I use is an electroencephalograph called “Muse”. It works in conjunction with a smartphone to visualize the state of brain waves with sounds and graphs. I am happy when my brain waves change to loose alpha waves from the beta waves and delta waves which come out when I’m in tension.
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1974: Graduates from Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Economics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1974: Joins Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
1980: Goes abroad and Completes the master’s program at the School of Engineering, Stanford University
(Acquires MS IE and Engineer IE)
1991: Leaves Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
1992: Chief Consultant, Kaizen Consultants Co., Ltd.
2004: Receives the Management System Special Award, Japan Industrial Management Association
2006: Acquires the Doctor of Engineering degree from the Keio University
2018: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Advanced technology Meister Award
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Yukio Kakiuchi's Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1951.
As the director of Yukio Tsujiuchi's engineer office,
he has been working around the world through manufacturing improvements.
Also serves as a training instructor for Nippon Keidanren.
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Advanced Technology Meister (FY2017)
Director, Yukio Tsujiuchi Technical Consultant Office Improvement Consultant
Doctor of Engineering (Management Engineering)
Visiting Professor at Tama University Business School
Keio University Special Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Business (KBS)
(2011-2016)
Visiting Professor, Shizuoka University