Super Kaizen yields $3.5 million in 8 weeks to the bottom line. Are you achieving this kind of results? The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large and small companies is rapidly giving way to self-learning and implementing Lean/Six Sigma systems for continuous improvements.

Lean execution methodologies combined with Lean/Six Sigma poses a huge payoff.

With Lean methods, instead of building the whole product, you build the smallest level of inventory and provide it to customers faster. Lean allows for the workflow to address abnormalities in the applications of Pull/Kanban systems in place. This allows you to see what is adding value or creating rework, for example, an engineering deployment process. Design and product development is an evolutionary conversation in which incremental steps allow requirements to be tested and adjusted. Quality also increases in Lean and Six Sigma projects because using a Pull system exposes defects right away instead of leaving them to a final testing phase. Many other aspects of Lean and Six Sigma are beneficial but take months if not years to create improved cash flow.

I’ve been discussing this topic for the last several years about Super Kaizens with super results in weeks not years. This phenomenon of blending an Execution Methodology for Super Kaizens creates warp speed of change for super performance.

Large and small organizations that are applying M.A.R.I.S. principles are taking a value stream approach in which various development teams are organized in sequential and parallel streams of work so that at the end of each iteration, you get a new version of the products or workflows. Sometimes different rhythms of iteration occur, with some work taking place in faster increments, followed by the integration of everything in consecutive cycles of learning creating faster results.

The Lean with Super Kaizen approach creates something like a distributed Super Kaizen and deeply integrates the way Lean/Six Sigma is applied and practiced, filling a gap relating to continuous improvement, acceleration and velocity. The evolution of Super Kaizen is primarily focused on evolving the product and value streams toward creating a Super performance of a company. In Super Kaizens, both the product and the requirements are refined as more is known through experience of living value stream maps. Super Kaizen with the M.A.R.I.S. execution methodology is used in Lean Your Way, focusing on the development value stream processes. When Super Kaizen is practiced in an operational excellence project, the participants not only suggest ways to improve the fit between the product and the requirements, but also offer ways to improve the process being used, something usually not emphasized in Lean/Six sigma methods. I described the use of Super Kaizen to implement process improvements in 8 weeks to create super results and financial benefits.

“The power of Lean Your Way Super Kaizen’s is that it’s self-adaptive,” I first created this with Kraft Foods as a consultant in Garland, Texas in 2010. Plant Manager quoted, “It teaches teams how to deliver value to customers and how to improve themselves using techniques like Lean tools, allowing them to deal with unique and changing constraints and environmental factors faster.”

In practice, Super Kaizens is tailor made and excitedly embraces Lean Your Way principles, that is creating a better way by adopting Lean and Six Sigma thinking in a new and faster way by your culture. I believe companies can get to market 50% faster and are 50% more productive when they employ a hybrid of Lean/Six Sigma and Lean Your Way execution methods. Given the way that Super Kaizen fits so naturally into the Lean framework, and Six Sigma fits so naturally into the Super Kaizens framework it wouldn’t surprise me if before too long, Super Kaizens and Lean Your Way can be integrated to create Super companies that achieve their next order of magnitude, the new standard of practice, their new consciousness.

At Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, it was adapted in 2010 through 2013 to reduce cost by more than $150 million in the 3 years while I was there. It has been used in potash mining processes in Canada 2014, 1 mile under the surface of the earth. It was used in a major utility company in the northeast from 2014 to 2016 to reduce utility outages to bring service back up faster.

This is moving at the speed of light in the continuous improvement world. No, it does not come out of the academic world. It comes out of 30 plus years of watching companies falling into the same old trap—mechanical and not quantum mechanical thinking, as I put it. I will say it again; the Toyota approach may not work for you. They have been super for 50 years, no one will argue that. It is an amazing testimony for continuous improvement and respect for the individual, the twin engines that got them to where they are today. It’s part of their DNA and had to overcome many disruptive years to achieve break throughs to be the number 1 car company. Change accrues each day. Those that cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. This has proven to be a faster way of executing change from within a company. Understanding this could help change the biological DNA of your company to achieve a faster, Super Kaizen/Lean cultural transformation that transforms performance, promotes servant leadership and engages culture throughout your company that will add value to the bottom line that improves shareholder value.

If you want to learn more about what Lean Your Way has to offer then go to my website at www.leanyourway.com or write me at johnballis@leanyourway.com for more information. We offer the only guarantee of a 3:1 in the consulting industry. Whats holding you back? Our methods and education can be applied to any business.