Shingo Institute to offer courses on Japanese management

By P. Vikram Reddy

HYDERABAD, AUG. 12. A group of individuals with experience of Japanese management techniques, after having served in Japan at some point in their careers, have now come together to bring popular Japan management techniques, and offer training in these areas in an academic environment.

Asa Bhanu Japan Centre initiated by Mr. Rama Bhadra (Managing Director) and K. S. Madhavan & Associates (Mr. Madhavan, former managing director of Tecumseh being the force behind it), have come together to set up the Shingo Institute of Japanese Management at Hyderabad.

It will begin to offer a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (part-time evening course), to practising managers from industries. This will be of two semesters. Later, they propose to have a two year full time PGDBM. The initial part-time course will have Total Employee Involvement (TEI), 5S and Indian management philosophies in the first semester. In the second semester will be TQM and other techniques. The 5S stands for Seiri (organisation), Seiton (neatness), Seiso (cleaning), Seiketsu (standardisation), and Shitsuke (discipline).

Mr. Madhavan says, Mr. Shiego Shingo along with Mr. Taichi Ohno, Mr. Kaoru Ishikawa and others helped revolutionise the way we manufacture goods. Mr. Shingo was the first to create some of the strategies on continuous improvement through active involvement of all employees. He believed everything could be improved, and that inventory was not a necessary evil, but an absolute evil.

The core competence of Shingo Institute will be around Japanese Management Techniques, which interestingly, he says, are also part of ancient Indian wisdom. They would also teach intensively all Japanese scientific tools such as statistical process control, design of experiments, robust designs, Poka Yoke, as part of TQM and TPM. While a number of short-term (few weeks) programmes are conducted in companies, there is no organised full-time course available now in India, he says. There is one TQM institute in the North which offers 15 days to four weeks course.

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