Everyone says continuous improvement. Most of it is firefighting with better vocabulary.
A scored diagnostic of lean judgment for team leads, engineers and operations professionals — reported as a completed A3 sheet about your own improvement thinking.
Your report is an A3 about you
Belt courses test whether you can define DMAIC and name the wastes. This assessment measures what you would do when it costs something: the recurring defect with an obvious culprit, the pilot your director wants everywhere by Friday, the metric that improved while the process did not, the operator who stopped the line for a false alarm. Every option is defensible — the keying follows Deming, Ohno, the A3 discipline and the sustainment research.
The A3 Canvas is a new scoring design: every choice carries a hidden system weight — fix the system versus fix the symptom or the person — and a gemba weight — go and see versus assume from the desk. Your report is laid out as a real A3 problem-solving sheet with your Root-Cause Index and Gemba Index drawn as gauges in the background box.
The four phases of improvement — grasp, analyse, countermeasure, sustain — are scored separately, because most practitioners are strong somewhere and leak somewhere, and the leak is where the gains go.
What you walk away with
Whether your fixes aim at systems or at people and instances — Deming's 94% arithmetic, measured on your own choices. Symptom managers meet the same problems forever.
Whether reality gets checked at the source before views form, or dashboards and summaries stand in for the floor — the cheapest fix in the whole report is a pair of shoes.
Grasp, analyse, countermeasure and sustain scored separately, so you know which phase of your improvement cycle leaks gains.
Grasping problems at the source, root-cause analysis, countermeasures and experiments, and standardising and sustaining — each with a practitioner-grade interpretation.
Concrete practices per weak discipline, written into the A3's follow-up box the way a real A3 would carry them — with you as the named owner.
Inside your report
Illustrative sample — your report is generated from your own responses.
Built for
- Team leads, supervisors and engineers expected to improve work while doing it
- Quality and operations professionals building a continuous-improvement culture
- Organisations screening for genuine improvement judgment beyond belt certificates
See your A3
30 scored exercises · about 30 minutes · full bespoke report as a completed A3 with your two indices.
₹999 (incl. GST) · assessment and full report, nothing further to pay
Frequently asked questions
Four disciplines: grasping problems at the source, root-cause analysis, countermeasures and experiments, and standardising and sustaining. It measures what you would actually do in 19 realistic improvement situations, plus waste-spotting, variation-reading and self-check exercises — not belt vocabulary.
Every option carries a graded quality score keyed to the published lean and quality evidence — Deming, Ohno, Spear and Bowen, the A3 discipline — plus a hidden system-versus-symptom weight and a go-and-see-versus-assume weight that build your Root-Cause Index and Gemba Index.
Team leads, supervisors, engineers, and quality and operations professionals in any sector — manufacturing, services or software. No belt certification is assumed or required, and no belt curriculum is reproduced.
About 30 minutes for 30 scored exercises. You get a full report laid out as a completed A3 sheet: practice score, both indices as gauges, phase scores, four discipline bands and a follow-up box — downloadable as a colour PDF.
₹999 in India (including GST) or US$9.99 elsewhere, one-time, for one full sitting and report — against lean six sigma courses that run $99 to $2,000. Organisations can assess teams through AssessAll credits at 26 credits per person.
Every level from aspiring leader to the boardroom has its own readiness assessment — its own research base, scoring model and verdict report. Wherever you are now, and wherever you are heading next, there is a rung that measures it.
See every level →Methodology: Measures applied continuous-improvement judgment through original situational items keyed to published evidence: the Toyota Production System principles as publicly described (Ohno, 1988; Spear & Bowen, 1999), lean thinking and waste taxonomy (Womack & Jones, 1996; Imai, 1986; 1997 on gemba practice), A3 problem-solving and PDCA/PDSA discipline (Shook, 2008; Deming, 1986 — including the system-versus-person attribution finding), five-whys causal analysis and its limits (Ohno, 1988; Card, 2017 critique), standard work and improvement-kata practice (Rother, 2009), psychological safety as the precondition for problem surfacing (Edmondson, 1999), andon and stop-to-fix principles (Spear & Bowen, 1999), measurement dysfunction when targets replace processes (Goodhart's law as publicly formulated; Muller, 2018), and sustainment research on why improvements decay (Bateman & David, 2002). A3 Canvas is an original scoring design: each option carries a system-versus-symptom weight and a go-see-versus-assume weight aggregated separately from the quality key, with items placed on the four phases of an A3 sheet. Items are original works; no commercial training programme or trademarked belt curriculum is reproduced, and no certification body affiliation is implied.