A lecture for organisations · 90 minutes · On site / Online
Operational Improvement in Small Steps
Most businesses do not fail in their first year. They wear down in the years that follow, when routine takes over and improvement stops. This lecture teaches the opposite of the perfect plan: continuous improvement in small steps, kaizen style, with a weekly improvement loop you can start the next morning. Participants work on their own business throughout the session using a structured worksheet, and leave with a first improvement cycle that starts that same week.
The content is matched in advance to your audience and goals on a short fitting call.
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Format
- On site · Online
- Built for
- Business owners and managers
What your audience takes away
- ▸Running a full weekly improvement loop in the business, from plan to conclusions, without waiting for the quarter to end.
- ▸Recognising the perfection trap and testing new ideas as a small first version before a large investment.
- ▸Turning the team’s daily frustrations into improvement suggestions that actually get implemented.
- ▸A fifteen-minute weekly retrospective with three questions that stops the business repeating the same mistakes.
How the session runs
- 01
Why good businesses get stuck
Two founders with the same idea and opposite outcomes, and the myth of first-year failure.
- 02
The perfection trap
Why one perfect plan is a giant bet with no checkpoints along the way, through real case studies.
- 03
Kaizen: small improvements by everyone
Where the approach was born, and why many small improvements beat one genius idea.
- 04
The weekly improvement loop
The PDCA model in practice: a full cycle in one week, including a first exercise on your own business.
- 05
Version 1
Why the world’s most successful products started as an embarrassing first version, and the right first step for a new idea.
- 06
Retrospective and personal wrap-up
Fifteen minutes a week that save expensive mistakes, and every participant leaves with an improvement cycle starting that week.
Who this lecture is for
Built for business owners, managers and teams that feel the business is running in place: busy with day-to-day work, with no time left to work on the business itself. No background in management methods is required. The lecture uses plain language, with examples from Toyota to SpaceX, and every participant works on their own business with a structured worksheet.
Who delivers the lecture
Alexander Slutsker
Business consultant, entrepreneur and founder of Mobius Business Solutions
- ✓14 years of entrepreneurship and consulting, dozens of businesses and managers accompanied in Israel
- ✓MBA in Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship
- ✓BBA in Marketing and Finance
What organisers say
Alexander's lecture is simply a must for every pre-army programme or youth centre. Our young people received an amazing, practical toolbox for adult life. The content is delivered in a fascinating way, at eye level.
How booking works
- 1
Get in touch
Send a WhatsApp message or use the form, with the date, the audience and the setting.
- 2
A short fitting call
On the call the content and examples are matched to your audience and goals.
- 3
The lecture is delivered
On site or online, 90 minutes, questions from the room included.
Worked with
- Google for Startups
- הבית לעסקים של עיריית שדרות
- Microsoft Reactor
- GameReady
- SderoTech
- IUCEL
- Resilience & Health Innovation Hub
- International Resilience Institute of Sderot
Want this lecture at your organisation?
Send a message with the date and the audience, and a short fitting call matches the content to your organisation.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a theoretical lecture about management methods?
No. It is a working session. A structured worksheet accompanies the whole lecture, participants fill it in as we go, and leave with a first improvement loop that starts that same week.
What is kaizen?
Kaizen is an approach to continuous improvement in small steps, born in Japanese industry and now a worldwide management standard. The lecture teaches the approach in everyday language and focuses on immediate application in your business, not on terminology.
Is prior knowledge required?
No. The lecture is built for business owners and managers with no prior background, and every tool is explained from scratch in plain language.
Who is this lecture best suited for?
Existing businesses that want to get unstuck: small business owners, team managers and organisations that want to build a culture of continuous improvement.
Part of the audience is experienced and part is new. Will it work?
Yes. The depth is set in advance on the fitting call, examples are matched to the sector, and the base assumes no prior knowledge. Audience questions give the experienced their room too.