22 December 2006 Kaizen is A Japanese term that is used to refer to continuous incremental improvement. The originally Japanese term consists of two words "kai," which means change, and "zen," which ...

In Japanese, Kaizen means ‘improvement’ or ‘change for the better’. It refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering and business ...

The Japanese concept of kaizen fits perfectly into DevOps by pushing people to take responsibility for their operations and fix mistakes as they crop up. Do you see the similarities in this approach ...

Long, long ago, Kaizen events meant walking-around observation and value stream mapping in face-to-face and elbow-to-elbow meetings. We believed that sharing respiratory space was essential to ...

Most businesses get trapped optimizing incremental improvements when what they actually need is radical reimagining, or vice-versa. The companies that grow consistently and prepare successfully for ...

The term "kaizen," the Japanese word for improvement, is used by businesses to describe a technique of continuous improvement that eliminates waste, improves efficiency and involves all employees in ...

IN A GOOD YEAR, THE U.S. manufacturing sector might chalkup a 4% overallincrease in productivity. At the plant level, some top-flight produc-tion operations have achieved gains of 20% or more in a 12- ...

Robert Maurer is the author of The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time (see my book review). Lean principles have been applied in disciplines ranging from ...