December 2015

Mission Dantotsu: E-Newsletter from Kaizen Institute AIM (Africa, India,

Middle East)

The Hon Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has set the vision and the agenda, aimed at boosting the manufacturing sector and to jump start the contribution of manufacturing to the GDP pie. Rightly so, this will lead to economic growth, job creation and reduced importation bill. But the pertinent question on everyone’s mind is, are we ready? Is the Indian manufacturing sector Prepared? Capable ? to take on this challenge? How do we accelerate the adoption and awareness of the Zero Defect; Zero Effect vision? Such that the manufacturing sector is able to deliver On Time; In Full; Error Free products and goods, every time, across the manufacturing spectrum? IndiZen 2016 –7th National Convention on Operational Excellence. The Kaizen Institute believes that to fully capitalize on both the domestic and global opportunities and in order to promote manufacturing excellence, various platforms must be created – platforms that offer an opportunity to share, leran and benchmark. One such platform is Indizen. Launched in 2010, by the “father of KAIZEN” Sensei Masaaki Imai, IndiZen returns with its 7th edition on 16th & 17th Feb 2016 @ Pune. The theme for this year’s convention is making Zero Defect Zero Effect A Way of Life. IndiZen has become one of India’s prominent annual gatherings of professionals in the Operational Excellence/ Lean/ Kaizen domain. The objective of this event is to offer this community an opportunity to Learn, Share, Celebrate & Network with like minded people.

Announcing: INDIZEN 2016

7th National Convention on Operational Excellence

16th & 17th Feb. 2016,

Le Meridien, Pune, India

Apart from inspiring opening & closing keynote speakers, there are three tracks over this two days event: Track 1; Knowledge Sessions Learning modules on contemporary topics; delivered by leading coaches

Track 2; Excellence Inside Tours Visits to world class facilities/ factories as Seeing is Believing!

Track 3; National OE Case Study Competition Opportunity to present your inspiring case studies while challenge the national awards.

This national convention will give you everything you need to be more focused, energized and successful in the domain of Operational Excellence/ Lean. We welcome you and your organizations!

Launching soon! Get Inspired! Get Challenge!

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Unleashed 16.02.2016

Kaizen Story

Cracked pot story

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a

pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always

delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walks from the stream

to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this

went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of

water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor

cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could

only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it

perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. 'I

am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all

the way back to your house.'

The old woman smiled, 'Did you notice that there are flowers on your

side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?' 'That's because I have

always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of

the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.' For two

years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the

table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this

beauty to grace the house.'

Moral

Kaizen is all about identifying, reducing and eliminating the flaws

Each of us has our own unique flaw and same has to be recognized and improved

so that it doesn’t hamper our & our organization progress.

But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very

interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in

them.