4. O r g a n i s i n g c o m m i t te e m e m b e r s with Mr. J. N. Godrej, Vijay Crishna, Anil Verma, B. K. Rajkumar & the Judges Front row (L-R) : Daisy Pradhan, Falguni Turakhia, Reginaldo D’Souza, Rishikesh Ahirrao, Suruchi Trivedi, V. S. Ramesh Back Row (L-R) : Jaikumar Hinduja, Prajot Pednekar, Sujith Nair, Roxanne Fernandes, Namrata Saraf, Anjali Arvindakshan, Shoeb Siddique & Suhas Shinde. 5. Kaustubh Shukla and Sushil Agarkar of Godrej Precision Engineering receiving the award for ‘Business with maximum participation percentage’ from Mr. J. N. Godrej.
Finally a week long intense planning culminated in the inauguration of the Best Kaizen Competition 2012 on 6 th Sept. this year. All businesses of G&B, including establishments located outside Mumbai participated in the competition. The auditorium having a capacity of 200 seats was occupied with around 350 to 400 people with many standing in the aisles. The view of the audience was fascinating with so many Ruby Red Kaizen t-shirts all over the auditorium. Falguni Thurakia was the compere for the day. Mr. Rajkumar made everyone take the Kaizen pledge right at the beginning and the participants were simply overwhelmed with the underlying emotion. Anil Verma inaugurated the competition mentioning about the importance of employee involvement and the need to embrace a culture of continual improvement. Mr. Rajkumar made the introductory remarks about the competition, giving details of its history and the status of Kaizen in the organisation today. 4
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Jayanth Mur thy, Director, Kaizen Institute of India, Jayprakash Zende, a reputed Kaizen consultant and Manoj Degloorkar from CII west zone formed the panel of judges who would evaluate the presentations that would ensue during the day. All the judges had vast experience in the field of continual improvement as well as in evaluating Kaizen. The evaluation criteria used by the judges was the same as that specified in the Kaizen management system (KMS), but two additional criteria were added pertaining to the clarity of presentation and time management. In all, 28 presentations were made, 14 by workmen and 14 by management staff. Each and every presentation was made with great enthusiasm and as per CII guidelines. At the end of each and every presentation loud applauses were heard, not only from the colleagues of the team members making the presentation but the members of the competing teams and other participants as well. All in all, the presentations were of higher quality as compared to the previous years. Better