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How to do Kaizen when overloaded

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I responded to a tweet by Brant Roney containing a graph from a webinar held by Mark Graban and Dr. Greg Jacobson on “Making Time for Continuous Improvement”. I presented a question including a drawing on how to go about when there was no time for Kaizen, when the teams are constantly overloaded?

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What about when the graph constantly look like this?

My original tweet

An interesting discussion emerged and Mark Graban put some of it into a blog post “Can You Even Consider Kaizen When the Chart Showing Time and Workload Looks Like this?” featuring my initial question and drawing.

Jimmy Sjölund
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Jimmy Sjölund
Jimmy Sjölund is an organisational transformation expert with extensive experience driving change at large, multinational companies. As Continuous Improvement Manager at Red Hat, he focuses on leveraging customer feedback and data-driven insights to create meaningful improvements across the entire organisation. His work integrates lean and agile methodologies with a customer-centric approach, enabling a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence. Jimmy has published articles and book chapters on topics such as work visualisation techniques, asynchronous collaboration, and leading through open principles and behaviours. A seasoned public speaker, he has presented at conferences like Agila Sverige, Build Stuff, ScanAgile, and All Things Open. Jimmy also serves as an Ambassador for the Open Organization project and community, and is a maintainer of the Open Decision Framework.
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