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Guide Provides Steps for Managing Lean Kaizen Events, Powered by SCORE

LONGMONT, Colo.—July 20, 2006—According to a recent announcement, Breakthrough Performance Press has released “A Team Leader’s Guide to Kaizen Events.” Co-authored by BMG Lean Master, William Wes Waldo, and Lean Master/co-inventor of the SCORE methodology, Tom Jones, the guide is intended to provide users with the roadmap, tools, templates, and skills needed to move through the SCORE process.

Kaizen, which means “change for the better” in Japanese, reportedly is used in Lean transformations to break down the project mentality of an organization and create a bias toward action. SCORE, which stands for Select, Clarify, Organize, Run & Evaluate, is BMG’s methodology for implementing Kaizen Events that change a company for the better. SCORE expands Lean’s traditional Kaizen Event with four additional improvement steps, adding project selection, planning, and evaluation to the traditional “running” of an event, according to the announcement.

“It’s one thing to learn all the material in class, but it’s another to apply it under the pressure of making a real-time improvement,” stated Neil DeCarlo, vice president for publishing. “[This] guide serves as an armchair coach for those who are leading Lean Kaizen Events within their organization.”

According to the announcement, the guide includes a synopsis of Kaizen and the SCORE methodology; descriptions of the different functions of a Kaizen Event team leader; a roadmap and instructions for moving through a Kaizen Event; four appendixes with templates and matrices to assist in the different phases of the event; and a CD-ROM containing templates, motivational posters, team charters, and worksheets.

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