I told reader Johnny, if you ask Japanese Kaizen expert Chihiro Nakao, he would tell you that “Kaizen is for the workplace ...

Question: How many kaizen events should we do each year? Answer: It depends. It depends on how many improvement events you need to meet your performance improvement commitments for the year. It ...

Lean process improvement methodologies are finding their place not just in manufacturing but in the clinical setting, where removing inefficiencies benefits not only the hospital but the patients ...

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NAIROBI, KENYA; Kenyan businesses are quickly adopting the Japanese concept of Kaizen to improve local productivity and quality services, according to Kenyan and Japanese officials. Kaizen is a ...

Unfortunately there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of kaizen, viewing it only as small incremental improvements. Therefore a new term was introduced into the lean vocabulary: kaikaku.

When translated into English, the Japanese word kaizen is typically rendered as “continuous improvement.” Kaizen is the steps you take to improve your processes, frequently by implementing small and ...