Kaizen

[Dadonkadonk]

KW used this word in locker room speech.  

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process. In a sense, it combines the collective talents within a company to create a powerful engine for improvement.

I told you this is all Lean or Toyota Production System methodology McD is using.   Multiple coaches in NFL and College all use it now.  Works in manufacturing and health care.  Let's see if it works in football.

[YoloinOhio]

Thank you - I didn’t know what KW was referring to and thought was some player’s name 

[SinceThe70s]

McD should go with the FISH! philosophy next week:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish!_Philosophy

 

 

[Just Joshin']

I am impressed.  There is no reason these techniques should not work in any environment. 

 

I can see many laughing at "the process" but it's essence is a vision combined with a methodical approach to achieve results.  

[The Frankish Reich]

27 minutes ago, Dadonkadonk said:

KW used this word in locker room speech.  

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process. In a sense, it combines the collective talents within a company to create a powerful engine for improvement.

I told you this is all Lean or Toyota Production System methodology McD is using.   Multiple coaches in NFL and College all use it now.  Works in manufacturing and health care.  Let's see if it works in football.

Interesting. Toyota's version of a Six Sigma type thing. I'm not big on such management jargon, but if the players buy in, well, then I guess it's working. The thing I hated about Six Sigma when I worked in an organization that embraced it was how unrealistic it was about error rates in a non-mechanized setting. Literally speaking, you'd want to reduce error rates to 3.4 per million opportunities ... in the NFL world, that would be something like no delay of game penalties called in the entire history of the NFL ...

[Big Turk]

36 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Interesting. Toyota's version of a Six Sigma type thing. I'm not big on such management jargon, but if the players buy in, well, then I guess it's working. The thing I hated about Six Sigma when I worked in an organization that embraced it was how unrealistic it was about error rates in a non-mechanized setting. Literally speaking, you'd want to reduce error rates to 3.4 per million opportunities ... in the NFL world, that would be something like no delay of game penalties called in the entire history of the NFL ...

Lol...funny I am learning this stuff in my Operations Mangement class

[billsfanmiami(oh)]

Bless you...

[FeelingOnYouboty]

One of my favorite books 

[hondo in seattle]

I gave a class on kaizen to my team (restaurant industry) earlier this year.   Interesting to see the Bills use it.   

[Freddie's Dead]

Do they have scrums and weekly sprints too?

 

[thenorthremembers]

I work in healthcare and we use it.  I was very surprised when I heard it in the video.  

[PolishDave]

8 hours ago, Dadonkadonk said:

KW used this word in locker room speech.  

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process. In a sense, it combines the collective talents within a company to create a powerful engine for improvement.

I told you this is all Lean or Toyota Production System methodology McD is using.   Multiple coaches in NFL and College all use it now.  Works in manufacturing and health care.  Let's see if it works in football.

 

This is a fundamental part of "The Process" that all of those "Process" coaches use.    Get 1% better every day in every way you can.

[RoyBatty is alive]

8 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Interesting. Toyota's version of a Six Sigma type thing. I'm not big on such management jargon, but if the players buy in, well, then I guess it's working. The thing I hated about Six Sigma when I worked in an organization that embraced it was how unrealistic it was about error rates in a non-mechanized setting. Literally speaking, you'd want to reduce error rates to 3.4 per million opportunities ... in the NFL world, that would be something like no delay of game penalties called in the entire history of the NFL ...

 

In graduate school i had an entire class titled Organizational Behavior, it was a class of never ending business jargon/slogans, i used to call it new age psycho babble for business.

[Livinginthepast]

I just had this flashback to the early Simpsons and Homer giving a speech about Jiko Kanri (The Japanese art of self management) but nobody is listening because Homer is bald!

[bmur66]

Great. Let's have a Kaizen event

[Shaw66]

12 hours ago, Dadonkadonk said:

KW used this word in locker room speech.  

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) is a strategy where employees at all levels of a company work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements to the manufacturing process. In a sense, it combines the collective talents within a company to create a powerful engine for improvement.

I told you this is all Lean or Toyota Production System methodology McD is using.   Multiple coaches in NFL and College all use it now.  Works in manufacturing and health care.  Let's see if it works in football.

Cool.  I didn't know that KW referred to it yesterday.

 

I caught on to this last spring when in some press conference McDermott described the process within the entire organization.   It was obviously based on some continuous improvement management philosophy.   

 

Listen to Belichick, even in the press conferences when he says nothing.  What he says over and over is that they have to get better.   Every day.  

[boyst]

Six sigma mother *****.

 

Black belt for the win.

[buffalostu2]

12 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Interesting. Toyota's version of a Six Sigma type thing. I'm not big on such management jargon, but if the players buy in, well, then I guess it's working. The thing I hated about Six Sigma when I worked in an organization that embraced it was how unrealistic it was about error rates in a non-mechanized setting. Literally speaking, you'd want to reduce error rates to 3.4 per million opportunities ... in the NFL world, that would be something like no delay of game penalties called in the entire history of the NFL ...

Your tying the Toyota Production System to just Six Sigma.  It'snot done that way anymore, it is Lean Six Sigma.  90% of the time Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma are implemented incorrectly which is why it fails.  Your environment needed Lean weaved in with Six Sigma to eliminate waste (Lean) , not just defect reduction. 

 

Sorry, implementing Lean Six Sigma is my work life     

[buffalostu2]

I am a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and Innovation - go ahead, make the title jokes if you must.   I am always looking at McCoach through a Lean Six Sigma lens.  I always thought it was funny that McCoach called it "the process" instead of "my process" or "our process".  The fact is every team has a process, even Rex.   I was skeptical by this verbiage but McCoach has his documented /mapped which most coaches don't do.  Most importantly McCoach MEASURES his process.   You realize the power of Lean Six Sigma when you map, measure and eliminate the waste and defects in your process.  When I realized McCoach knows what he is doing in his practice of structured problem solving and  data driven decision making was when I heard a response to a media question around the most incorrectly and overused phrase in sports "analytics".  When asked about a specific data point , coached responded with "some data points are more important than others .  That leads me to believe he understands "KPIs = key performance indicators.   Good processes are measured and tweaked to drive their KPIs.   He gets this and it is why he is true to his process.  But know that the process is constantly changing to drive the KPIs.   

 

Coaching an NFL team means managing a massive amount of variables and  and human error.  Following a structured approach like McCoach is a great way to do it.       

[Alphadawg7]

This sounded like a McD term as Kyle asked McD if he pronounced it right