6Ws of the Kaizen Wheel Holistic approach to your continuous improvement journey VadiK Inventor Author Founder   Continuous Improvement Mindset Start your continuous improvement journey with improving yourself. Kaizen mindset makes continuous improvement an inner need and a habit. Everything can and should be improved ‒ look for improvement opportunities constantly and pursue them creatively and proactively.       Kaizen is human-centric continuous improvement journey. The 6Ws are Why, Who, What, How, Where, and When.       Why Why do you want to improve continuously? Be passionate about what you do and your target audience and strive to create increasingly higher value for your beloved ones whoever they are – family, friends, community, customers, partners, peers, sponsors, investors.   If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history. If you are not getting better, you are getting worse. ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   How How do you need to improve to realize your purpose? The purpose and the vision of the desired future state align your continuous-improvement actions in that direction.     Who Who do you want to be? Who are your customers? Visualize the ideal self and/or the ideal customer experience and walk backward from there to the current state to define milestones of your intended journey. In continuous improvement forms (CIF) every company employee is encouraged to come up with ideas – however small – that could improve his/her particular job activity, job environment or any company process for that matter.   Loving Creator Create Greater Value 6Ws 6Ws of Self-Coaching Effective Efficiency Efficiency Improvement Mini Kaizen     What What strategies and actions will help you turn your dream to reality? See continuous improvement (Kaizen) as a bridge between the present and the desired future state.   Continuous Improvement Firm CIF vs. MPF 3Ps  ▪  PDSA Cycle   Everything can and should be improved ‒ look for opportunities! ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   Mediocrity competes with others. Greatness competes with itself. Try to be better than what you were yesterday, not someone else.     Where Where will your interventions create the most positive impact? Guided by your mission and vision of the desired future, use the 80/20 principle to focus your actions on most impactful areas of positive change.   Kaizen and Management Kaizen Implementation: 7 Conditions     When When should you implement the intended changes to achieve the greatest positive impact? Having identified the right place, identify the right time for your intervention. “Right place, right time” is a well-known formula for success. Perfect timing is the difference that makes the difference.   Learn   Continuous Improvement   Teach   Kaizen Kaizen Mindset Kaizen Principles Quick and Easy Kaizen Kaizen and TQM Kaizen and Innovation Glossary of Kaizen Terms Kaizen and Kaikaku Kaikaku-Kaizen Synergy Examples of Kaizen Toyota  ▪  Fidelity       Keep in Mind       "Kaizen" means quite different things in Japan and the West. In Japan, "kaizen" is a journey that focuses on people – it calls to start any improvement with yourself and then improve everything around you. In the West, "kaizen" is narrowly focused on improving processes.