Sadly, when most organizations attempt to leverage Kaizen, the holistic approach for continuous improvement popularized by the Japanese, these companies fail to make the gains so widely touted.
It’s not that the Kaizen principles, themselves, fail. Unfortunately, it’s how kaizen is used in these organizations that is the root cause of the failure. This [...]

Kaizen concepts are quite different from traditional management concepts. For example, one of the fundamental management concepts in traditional management is is known as Management by Exception . This is also known as the "if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it " approach.  Given the way some Kaizen advocates paraphrase this, “If it ain’t broke, [...]

If you want to streamline and maximize the production efficiency in a company, no other methodology beats kaizen . Kaizen is a strategy for improving quality and production adopted and utilized by companies that are hoping to make their organization run more lean and efficient.  Lean is is known as a process of minimizing [...]

What does Kaizen, a Japanese method of production excellence and industrial efficiency have to do with self improvement? What is it, anyhow?
Kaizen began with the "continuous improvement" theories of efficiency expert W. Edwards Deming in the 30s and 40s. After World War II, these ideas were picked up by the Japanese and developed into Kaizen [...]