Technology is the piece of the equation that is most often missing from organizations struggling with the development of a kaizen culture. Widespread continuous improvement is difficult to manage and monitor with traditional technologies such as suggestion boxes, spreadsheets, and idea boards. Kaizen software fills that gap, connecting diverse, dispersed employees with features that enable collaboration and communication, enhance visibility, increase productivity, and enable consistent impact reporting. Here are the features kaizen software should provide: Kaizen software provides a structured improvement management that is uniformly used by all employees, with the flexibility to scale and fit improvement work of all sizes and types. The software should also provide a means of storing all documents, communication, tasks, and follow up items related to a particular opportunity for improvement in a single location. Smart notifications can come in the form of flags that are displayed in the platform itself, as well as in the form of emails that are automatically sent when something changes in the system, along with daily recaps. Active notifications promote effective leadership behaviors and methodologies by: - Streamlining communication Kaizen software providesreports that make it easy for you to see - The overall health of your improvement program Kaizen software lets you recognize employees with features such as virtual badge systems and online profiles that publicly identify each individual’s success. Software can also provide you with the information you need to take recognition one step further by identifying high-performers and recognizing them in more formal, real-life celebrations such as quarterly employee recognition ceremonies. Kaizen software automatically broadcasts the results of and details about your implemented ideas. This feature encourages more people to get involved in continuous improvement, recognizes those who are making improvements, disseminates best practices throughout the organization, and ensures that each improvement has the maximum impact. Kaizen software gives your organization a long-term memory. The software creates an improvement knowledge repository that is accessible to anyone in the organization, and is searchable so that all future staff and leaders may benefit from that institutional knowledge. It serves as a single source of truth for all improvement work that everyone in the organization refers to with improvement questions and ideas. In line with keeping your methodology simple, you should select easily deployed continuous improvement software. You don’t want to start using something that will be too complicated for your average user, or require that each employee undergo massive amounts of training to get up and running on it. Learn more about continuous improvement software in this free eBook:Structured Flexibility
Smart Notifications
- Providing a single source for improvement updates
- Reducing the amount of time spent in meetings
- Ensuring quick followup to questions and action items logged in the software
- Sending automated reminders of upcoming due dates and overdue work toEngagement and Impact Reports
- The engagement levels of individuals, work areas, and the organization as a whole
- The impact (both financial and non-financial) of continuous improvementBuilt-in Recognition
Broadcast Improvement
Capture Tribal Knowledge
Easy to Deploy
