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		<title>Kaizen Method to Living a Healthy Lifestyle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kaizen concept doesn’t just apply to business or manufacturing.&#160; The process of continual, modest improvements also has a place in our day-to-day lives.&#160; For example, consider weight loss or increasing fitness.&#160; Plenty of people are capable of making a huge commitment for a few weeks a year where they really push hard to live [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Approach to Budgeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kaizen approach to budgeting is founded upon the assumption that the Kaizen approach to other business functions is being followed.&#160; The Kaizen approach to continuous improvement, problem solving, management, quality, and productivity in general has the net impact of reducing costs in a given process, while increasing the quality of life for the worker. [...]


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		<title>Gemba Walk Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaizen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#34;Gemba Walk&#34; is an expression used in the world of lean manufacturing, often inaccurately.  Colleagues frequently disagree on what that even means.  For example, within a week of each other, one consultant explained it as meaning one thing, while just a week later another consultant’s definition was completely different.  So, even people from similar [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Blitz Methodology Process Approach Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaizen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Any organization can expect consistent improvement only if it can develop the work culture in such a way that their employees are delegated with some authority to identify and resolve problems. Kaizen training emphasize that each and every basic rule of the organization should be communicated to all the employees. The clear cut establishment of [...]


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		<title>Effective Kaizen Leadership Characteristics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaizen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When considering the successful implementation of Kaizen , one frequently hears about the importance of team participation and how the workers are the source of the strength of the program. But what of the leadership? What does are the traits of an effective leader in order for Kaizen to be effective in their organization other [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Events for Six Sigma Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.Kaizen.us/kaizen-events-for-six-sigma-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of business, the Japanese term &#34;kaizen&#34;, when literally translated, has a meaning of &#34;incremental improvement&#34;, and a kaizen event refers to a problem-solving project that emphasizes continuous change within a marked time frame. Events conducted in this format are often utilized in order to streamline the manufacturing process.
Each event will start out [...]


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		<title>Choosing Initial Kaizen Blitz Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.Kaizen.us/choosing-initial-kaizen-blitz-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaizen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This methodology that is being discussed about a particular Kaizen event will apply to many projects as well as improvement objectives. It is important that some particular items are considered regarding initial projects. So, what is different about initial projects?

They are often staffed primarily with people who are unfamiliar with the process of Kaizen.
If the [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Blitz Timing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many attempts to improve work efficiency at the workplace. Various theories have been propounded about how to make work more rewarding and at the same time more productive.
The Kaizen Blitz is a concept suggested by a Japanese ex-Toyota employee by the name of Yoshiki Iwata. He actually developed this idea and taught [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Event Process Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kaizen Case Study: Lego Factory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaizen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing can be a messy affair. Often the factory floor or the assembly line appears to be littered with tools and equipment. The entire unit appears disorganized and mismanaged. Did you ever get this feeling? If you have worked in the manufacturing sector then you are probably familiar with this scene.
One often wonders whether there [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Buttons: Win Friends, Influence Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizen Concept
Kaizen, Japanese for &#34;betterment&#34;, or &#34;adjusting for the better&#34; refers to philosophical system or patterns that concentrate on the continuous improvement or improvement of procedures in manufacturing, engineering, game growth, and job management. Kaizen has been adopted by many countries and organizations for use in the work place to the betterment of the organization.
The [...]


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		<title>American Kaizen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When comparing America with Japan, which was in vogue not too long ago,  it soon became apparent that the two cultures employed two entirely different approaches. Japan favored improvement that was gradual and continuous, while America tended more towards a &#34;stop and go&#34; approach - start strong, plateau, fall behind and then lurch forward [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Pronunciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you say kaizen?
When you say “Kaizen”, it&#8217;s important to realize the audience.  If you’re speaking to Americans, for example, but you show how to pronounce kaizen in Japanese, perfectly, people may not understand you.  So, be careful of perfectly mimicking the pronunciation.  This audio pronunciation of Kaizen shows the American pronunciation, which [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Budgeting: Definition, Approach, and Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizen Budgeting Definition:
Kaizen budgeting is an approach to budgeting which takes into account the costs of improving the production process. Instead of projecting costs based on current practices and methods, anticipated costs based upon kaizen improvements are already incorporated in the budget with the objective of reducing future costs below actual current costs.  Kaizen [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Budgeting Limitations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizen budgeting works by imposing gradually reduced budgets over time.  The goal of these reduced budgets is to provoke changes from within the ranks of the organization and secure the buy-in from middle-management as well.
Despite executive direction that kaizen tools and techniques should be used to reduce costs and increase quality, middle managers might [...]


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		<title>What is Kaizen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#34;continuous improvement&#34; 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 [...]


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		<title>Why Kaizen Fails (and the Secrets to its Success)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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		<title>Kaizen Concepts for Continuous Improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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 &#34;if it isn&#8217;t broken, don&#8217;t fix it &#34; approach.  Given the way some Kaizen advocates paraphrase this, “If it ain’t broke, [...]


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		<title>Understanding Kaizen Metrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]


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