Gemba Toolkit

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Evaluate keep challenging the Project Team, engaging with colleagues and coworkers at the Gemba to drive progress, lead/participate in troubleshooting, provide support to your organization and remove constraints and barriers that hinder progress.

More Uses of the Gemba Toolkit:

  • Control: continuously assess employee Data integrity performance and understanding through internal inspection, training effectiveness evaluation, Gemba and process confirmation.

  • Identify and retain highly effective personnel through proper selection, training/development, and setting expectations for performance.

  • Devise: monitor departmental performance and analyze data to identify focused opportunities for Reducing Costs and improving productivity, utilization, and quality.

  • Develop: effectively implements production plans and Performance Criteria and records KPI performance for Continuous Improvement.

  • Communicate and work effectively with other supervisors, managers and other organization personnel to meet organization objectives.

  • Head: work and reaches out with property Team Members at other sites in order to adopt Best Practices and accomplish tasks in a common manner.

  • Ensure you can individually make complex decisions while taking into consideration quality requirements and production demands.

  • Secure that your organization identifies the gaps and areas where the focus needs to be to meet budgets and have a profitable Operations Department.

  • Coordinate the efficient operation of manufacturing activities by performing supervisory tasks, while complying with current Policies and Procedures, QMS and safety requirements.

  • Identify: KPI leadership and lean leadership (daily accountability, Visual Management, leader Standard Work, and Gemba Walks).

  • Oversee Capacity Management for the facility by ensuring Production Schedules are achieved and make adjustments based on availability of equipment, materials, and manning.

  • Establish and mature the Lean Management System (tiered daily Management Systems, Gemba Walks, and leader Standard Work) and other coaching tools to transform the culture.

  • Govern: direct the work of the shifts team to build efficiency, cross training, safer Work Practices and attainment of quality goals.

  • Promote a lean, Continuous Improvement culture to develop headcount plans and production flow processes to efficiently meet Customer Demand.

  • Identify: weekly status review of manufacturing deliverables, quality trends and related corrective or preventative actions.

  • Pilot: monitor production efficiency and identify issues negatively affecting production efficiency, and work with employees and manufacturing engineers to address issues.

  • Supervise: document and update progress for Continuous Improvement initiatives identified through weekly Gemba Walks, escalated from the front lines, or discovered by leaders.

  • Maintain an issue free workplace by engaging employees, actively participating in Performance Appraisals and support the Corporate Objectives.

  • Anticipate challenges and implement solutions using Operational Excellence tools and methodology throughout the Transportation Network.

  • Lead: down to restore, transformation training to all new associates and refresher training for all existing associates.

  • Ensure your strategy leads all Manufacturing Operations in the plant to understand plant metrics, the Business Plan and how and when to react to correct or improve performance in the plant.

  • Manage: management of transportation assets and systems to gain greater service, Cost Efficiency and optimization of processes.

  • Control: work Cross Functionally to justify and seek agreement of other parties on compliance practices, Policies And Standards.

  • Ensure that an acceptable standard has been reached before turning over to the relief supervisor utilizing Gemba Walks.

  • Communicate with all Value Stream leads, Team Members and other members of management to ensure expectations and/or difficulties are clear.

  • Ensure you devise; understand operating standards and take action to maintain equipment and production targets are at budgeted levels.

  • Adhere to assembly Production Schedule to make sure Customer Requirements are met on time while maintaining overall productivity.

  • Assure your organization supports cross functional groups to assure Property Compliance Practices, Policies And Standards are adhered to Management Of Change.

  • Standardize: coach and mentor Lean Management teams at Gemba to drive Kaizen and respect throughout the Operational Environment.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Gemba Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Gemba related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Gemba specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Gemba Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Gemba improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Is there a Work Around that you can use?

  2. How do you measure risk?

  3. How do you assess your Gemba workforce capability and capacity needs, including skills, competencies, and staffing levels?

  4. What goals did you miss?

  5. What does losing customers cost your organization?

  6. How do you gather requirements?

  7. Is any Gemba documentation required?

  8. Does Gemba appropriately measure and monitor risk?

  9. How do you select, collect, align, and integrate Gemba data and information for tracking daily operations and overall Organizational Performance, including progress relative to Strategic Objectives and action plans?

  10. What is the oversight process?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Gemba book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Gemba self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Gemba Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Gemba areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Gemba Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Gemba projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Gemba Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Gemba project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Gemba project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Gemba Project Team have enough people to execute the Gemba Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Gemba Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Gemba Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Gemba project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Gemba project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Gemba project with this in-depth Gemba Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Gemba projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Gemba and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Gemba investments work better.

This Gemba All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.