Unfortunately, most attempts to apply Kaizen, the Japanese management concept for continuous improvement, fail, and fail miserably.
I’m not saying that Kaizen, itself, fails.  However, it is the way that kaizen, is applied is often the cause for failure. Hopefully, this article will show you what true kaizen is, as opposed to lean operations, and how to avoid [...]

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, don’t fix [...]

When it comes to streamlining and maximizing value of production in a company, no other system would beat kaizen. Kaizen is a quality strategy or scheme adopted and implemented by companies that are adopting measures for lean manufacturing, which is known as a process of minimizing production costs to boost overall valuation of a company. [...]

What does Kaizen, a Japanese method of production excellence and industrial efficiency have to do with self improvement? Can it be adapted to self-work? What is it, anyhow?
It began with the “continuous improvement” theories of efficiency expert W. Edwards Deming in the 30s and 40s. After the war the ideas were picked up by the [...]