All You Gotta Do Is Ask explains how to promote large numbers of ideas from your employees, something most organizations do very poorly, if at all. The people who manage such organizations are either unaware of the power of employee ideas, or they don’t know how to tap it. This easy-to-read book will show you why it is important to have a good idea system, how to set one up, and what it can do for you, your employees, and your organization. In 1989, for example, Japanese companies were averaging more than 37 ideas per employee, of which 87% were implemented. Quantifiable bottom-line savings were calculated at more than $4,000 per employee. By contrast, their U.S. competitors put little effort into encouraging employee ideas.

Kaizen is an approach that enables incremental productivity improvement involving everyone across the organization, managers and workers alike. The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) has pioneered a powerful application based on kaizen service and marketed as the Kaizen Blitz. The hallmark of Kaizen Blitz and why it is so appealing to manufacturers is that the approach delivers breakthrough improvements in the 40 - 50% range quickly. This book explores the approach and shows how to implement kaizen for rapid results, discussing the preparation necessary, obstacles to be wary of and the results you can expect. Companies profiled in this book include: Critikon, Wiremold, LanTech, Pfizer, Nypro, Hammond Manufacturing, Jacobs Manufacturing, and Pratt & Whitney.

The purpose of this book is to teach you how to encourage and support others to come up with small improvement ideas on a regular and sustained basis, ideas that can be self-installed on the job to make work easier, to give a sense of achievement and also add to the overall success of the company. It is written for managers and executives, leaders in the workplace, and for those interested in improving their own work lives by helping to make work more interesting, more enjoyable, and fun. The foreword is written by Joe Magliochetti Chairman - CEO of the Dana Corporation who receive over 2,000,000 ideas a year from all of their employees. This book tells you how to do it.

When it comes to making your business more profitable and successful, don't look to re-engineering for answers. A better way is to apply the concept of kaizen, which mean making simple, common-sense improvements and refinements to critical business processes.The result: greater productivity, quality, and profits achieved with minimal cost, time, and effort invested. In this book, you discover how to maximize the results of kaizen by applying it to gemba business processes involved in the manufacture of products and the rendering of services the areas of your business where, as the author puts it, the "real action" takes place.