I ve been amazed at how many ideas are born in just a few short hours with management peers in a brainstorming meeting. Not surprisingly, these sessions always sparked a new approach or refreshed view on something. From small improvements to complete reshaping a strategy, this type of management method has proven extremely beneficial. To implement such an undertaking, there are various ways to organize these brainstorming objectives. Mentor programs are designed to bring together friends or join with peer organizations for help and guidance.
Mentors provide business advice and give suggestions for improvement.
They also act as sounding boards, generating answers and solutions for new business ideas. Get a room of customers or noncustomers together for a Focus group and discover what they like or dislike, what they think about your new product or service idea, how they feel your product or service can be improved. A moderator can help get a room of strangers interacting with one another in creative ways. Without limiting the kaizen s influence to brainstorming, creativity for new ideas is likely to hold plenty of weight, although the aim is toward improvement. For instance, each problem or mistake is seen as an opportunity for improvement and the focus is not to blame people for errors, but to improve the system, to find what s wrong with a process that may be the cause of the problem.