Sustain Improvement Thinking
KaizApp enhances the individual’s ability to learn and adopt the leader’s technique by helping them form structure in their thinking. Step by step. The right questions. The right evidence. Smart decisions. Guided virtually from beginning to end.
Improvement workflow
The end-to-end process is mapped, from initiating the improvement to tracking results and is based on the structure of improvement thinking. The App guides the user through the process virtually from beginning to end making improvement thinking easier to embed and sustain.
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Create a new improvement
This simple feature enables teams to create a new improvement with just a photo and descriptive text. In the moment, on a Waste Walk – instantly uploading a new initiative and allocating it to the relevant owner. Making continuous improvement a natural part of their daily routine.
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Scientific PDCA thinking with dependent actions
Teams can contribute ideas, evidence, and actions to any stage of an existing improvement with the instant visibility and status of all the actions required to deliver on any given improvement. Enabling different shifts or locations to share, learn and build improvement skills. This embeds improvement thinking through repetition of improvement cycles - the right way.
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Visual progress tracker
This feature tracks the status of each improvement enabling the coach to see if the team is working through the improvement steps at the right pace.
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Solution stage of PDCA
Problems are properly identified, root cause investigated, and the solution deployed across your process. All actions and insights are shared across the enterprise to make learning easier, and ensure that the right interventions are made at the right time.
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KaizApp’s intuitive design guides users in improvement thinking using mobile technology, making it easy to use regardless of user level. This enables accelerated learning so that more people, can realise stronger improvements more of the time.
Improvement workflow
Following your improvement methodology is made easy in the App ensuring it is consistently applied and the right thinking becomes a habit across teams.
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Presentation mode
Team members can instantly present improvements to each other, which is the most powerful way to learn and is proven to accelerate performance. Teams consistently presenting enables them to challenge thinking, and gather suggestions from colleagues and coaches, as well as organise their thinking. Repetition of this structure builds stronger improvement skill.
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Search for enterprise best practice
Teams can search for initiatives across your entire improvement database including those marked as Best Practice. The search employs unlimited enterprise-defined categories of type, process, technology, material, etc as well as using search words. This helps source answers faster and build knowledge quickly across all sites.
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Business case assumptions with full audit trail
For each improvement a business case can be created in KaizApp and all changes over time are tracked, making sure teams are focused on the right things while making data driven decisions.
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Multiple devices and easy user experience
KaizApp works on mobile, tablet and laptop/desktop making it easier for more people to use and for the organisation to build capability at scale.
See more featuresIncrease Engagement
Teams can easily arrange insights, images, data, reporting & solutions in such a way that they tell the story of the improvement from start to finish. From definition to the goal met. Headlines to detail. Visual and numeric display. Presentable or searchable.
Overview status of team improvements
It’s easy to engage leaders with this instantly presentable overview of each project, benefits, status, and owner on screen or in presentation mode.
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Teams can share their improvements using the instant presentation mode. Doing so increases the opportunities for engagement and for more frequent coaching and problem solving. Always available. Always up to date.
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Recognises top performers
Team members can enjoy the recognition they deserve with the KaizApp algorithm that uses objective measures to commend top performers.
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Instant language translation
Language is no longer a barrier with instant translation using Google translate. Every page, 100+ languages see list.
See more featuresBusiness case assumptions with full audit trail
The financial metrics, costs, benefits and CAPEX are all held in the business case within KaizApp. As each improvement progresses, teams can simply capture assumptions and targets then update actuals in real time.
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Display of value delivery ££
Real time view of financial progress engages senior leaders and is proven to encourage the necessary support for high value or strategic improvements.
See more featuresGet Visibility & Control
KaizApp provides the fastest way to see what’s going on across an enterprise with visibility of business cases, value pipeline, improvement status and KPIs. With the ability to see the financial status, at a summary level and to drill down on any region, site, team or initiative, KaizApp is unique in its ability to control priorities, coach improvers and recognise employees based on objective measures.
Improvement Summary
The summary screen per improvement makes it easy to view and edit owners, sort categories and priorities; as well as the related goals, plans and financials.
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Overview of status of all team improvements
Providing full visibility of improvements for all teams makes it easier for leaders to align their efforts and coaching requirements.
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No more hunting around for the business case and trying to remember what was changed when, and by whom! Using KaizApp as your single application for all improvements, makes it easy to locate and track the business case and ongoing changes made throughout the lifecycle of all improvements, at country, site and individual level.
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Display of value delivery $$
At the touch of your screen, you can see your value pipeline based on the progress of each improvement– seen real time by team, location or at enterprise level.
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Digital management of prioritised actions
This feature provides full visibility of all the actions required to deliver a range of improvements simultaneously. Individuals and teams see what is relevant to them, while coaches see what is on track, delayed, or upcoming that needs their support, across the entire portfolio of improvements.
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Location objectives clearly defined & visible to all
Get your teams unified behind common objectives by enabling them to align their improvements with your key metrics. Available to everyone and everywhere, this visibility enables leaders to build better alignment and capability which support stronger improvements.
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Project plan per improvement
Users of any level can instantly update an item on their project plan making it easy to see projects real time and the progress that is being made.
See more featuresMake collaboration easy
KaizApp holds all improvement related information in one place. Available on multiple devices, blending on-site and virtual ways of working – all around the world, all at the same time. Reducing travel, increasing coaching time and setting a common and structured way of collaborating across your enterprise.
Presentation mode
Teams can share their improvements using the instant presentation mode. Doing so increases the opportunities for collaboration, reflection, and coaching all of which have a profound affect on performance improvement.
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Improvement workflow
Team members from different shifts and locations can contribute to any stage of an improvement within the App. Using a common structured method makes collaboration easier between teams.
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Direct message dialogue between users
Any team member can call, email, or send an in-app message using an easy drop-down menu on KaizApp. Making it easy to engage with other teams to share solutions, insights and learning.
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Instant language translation
With instant translation on every page – teams can collaborate in their own language more easily and more effectively see list.
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Search for enterprise best practice
The search function enables teams to work across silos to access Best Practice. Our clients see a reduction in duplication of effort with full access to all improvements across their enterprise.
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Location objectives clearly defined
Clearly linked improvements to objectives makes it easier for teams to collaborate on improvements that are targeted toward the goals set by the leader.
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Individuals are measured against the metrics associated with their improvement making it easy to distinguish and celebrate those who are achieving the strongest performance.
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