What Is Gemba Walk? And Why It Is Important

You're a quality inspector, and you haven't did gemba walk. This does not sounds good. Sometimes you need to do a gemba walk in your work area, the main purpose of this is to observe the work area without interfering, and it will help you in knowing what is happening in a given workplace, gemba is a Japanese word which means work area. Where the work is done, 
The mean of gemba walk is to physically go in the work area, and observe the process, 

The gemba walk is a managerial activity, it is an act of going deeper into the process. To know how processes are being done. 

Gemba walk require three things

1 Go and see 
2 ask why 
3 show respect 

The goal of gemba walk is to learn more about the process, 

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