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I am a Blogger and Kaizen Consultant. Who are You?I am a blogger, kaizen consultant and small business owner. I speak Japanese and English and a couple of other languages not as well. I write these articles because I believe that if more people learn about kaizen good things will happen. Who are you? Why do you visit this blog and read our articles? What I do know is that the readers of this blog come from many countries. In the last week people from more than 40 countries visited this site. Canada comes in ahead of the United Kingdom, which is a bit of a surprise, eh? Readers from industrial powerhouses Germany and Mexico make the top 5. What’s happening with kaizen in Denmark? Readers from that country have been in the top 10 consistently. I know shamefully little about Kenya but there appear to be a few readers from this country eager to learn about kaizen. Go Kenya! These numbers are “sessions” or unique visitors to the site. If you visit this blog 4 times in a week those are 4 sessions. So if you are in one of the minority 10% countries, take a look at the number of sessions, subtract the number of visits you make in a week, and if the remaining number is greater than zero that means there is someone else in your country interested in kaizen and Lean manufacturing. In the 16 months or so since we launched this blog the readership has grown steadily to where now we average over 550 per day with peaks days over 850. We have had visitors from more than 90 countries to our humble website since the beginning of this year. It makes me happy that we have visitors from so many places want to learn about kaizen and Lean manufacturing. There are approximately 200 countries in the world. Each country may recognize a different number of countries for various political reasons. For instance the U.S. recognizes 192 countries at the moment. We’ve reached readers in about half of the countries in the world. So back to my original question: who are you? We have created a short survey that asks four the questions “What do you do?” “What languages do you speak?” “Why do you visit this blog?” “What would make this blog more interesting for you?” If you fill out the survey I will share the results. Thanks for reading. By Jon Miller - April 30, 2006 7:50 AM 
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John, To provide some feedback.... Although I do not agree with some of your blogs we do use them at our SMT meetings. In the last while, due to your frequency of blogs we actually have very short daily meetings to discuss lean issues. If I may, I encourage you to keep up the blogging on a daily basis as it adds to our SMT meetings. Best regards, Jim Jim, Thanks for the encouragement. I'll do my best. I'm always happy to help keep meetings very short. Jon I visiting because I need to learn about Kaizen and How to take it to the Operations level in an effective way where the need is to create a Win-Win situation !! I am new to the Kaizen process, however it makes sense. Will be visitiing your blog for more info in the future. Thanks. I work as the UK Quality Manager for a large manufacturing company. My background is automotive (almost 30 years, frightening eh!) but the company I now work for doesn't understand what has now become their core business by default (long story but not unfamiliar I reckon!). I find this sight fascinating, partly because I've made it my business to study late 1940s - 1960s American guru stage, through the next20 years (Deming, Crosby, Taguchi etc) through Feigenbaum, etc. My organisation is trying to adopt LEAN but it's like watching children play with matches, in other words better than not watching them! I tried to get into a debate on Span as a metric. Fancy joining me? Hi Dave. Join you on the debate on Span, or in watching them play with matches? Sounds like fun either way. Jon, David Burton David, Welcome to the continuous improvement profession. Please lend a hand in giving us consultants a good name by helping people understand and apply Lean. Hi John, It's my first time to visit your blog and hope I can learn more about of lean concept from your articles. I'm working in Ultra office furniture ltd which been acquired by Steelcase at this November and now Lean project just launching in the plant of Ultra in south of PRC and we all expect the first improvement from the first step. Good afternoon Jon, I have just stumbled across your website after googling "toyota study group." I am employed by Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg. in Columbus, IN. Recently I was able to observe TPS in Japan at many of our manufacturing plants. The results was a total transformation of how I approach and respond to the daily "opportunities" that I face. Keep posting, we greatly value the info. Thank you. |
