4. Gemba Walks

Culture – Developing a lean culture: The Gemba Walk enables organizations to embed a continuous improvement and a self-development mindset in employees by fostering interaction, communication, and strengthening relationships among key stakeholders. 

People – Developing leaders: The Gemba Walk enables leaders to touch the value streams and to support, coach, reward, and engage employees in a collaborative and constructive problem-solving process aimed to uncover and address the problem’s root-causes.

Process – Improving the value streams: The Gemba Walk allows leaders to develop a deep understanding of the value stream from an end-to-end perspective. It enables the discovery of problems impacting the performance, allowing them to continuously align the decision-making process to generate more value.

During this masterclass participants will: 

• Discover the Gemba Walk lean practice: objectives, benefits and impact.
• Learn how to carry out Gemba Walks applying the DARE2GEMBA approach.
• Identify the behaviours that enable leaders and team members to carry out successful Gemba Walks.
• Reflect about other lean tools that support Gemba Walks for problem-solving
• Gain valuable insights from successful cases: Airbus, CEMEX, Zubex
• Q&A Session