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 ...

There’s a Japanese legend that says folding 1,000 paper cranes will grant you good fortune. Businesses, unfortunately, don’t get their problems solved by origami alone — though folding HR policies ...

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 ...

Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy that encourages continuous improvement and efficiency at work. Kaizen prioritizes lean methodology techniques and process improvement methodologies. For a ...

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 ...

Personally, I don’t push for the Japanese terminology as hard as some of my purist colleagues when it comes to training and implementation. The reason being that I came up in the Steel Industry and ...

With hospitals feeling the pressure to improve efficiency and lower costs, some are implementing the Kaizen method to streamline processes. Kaizen is among a number of process improvement strategies ...

RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantor, Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences and advanced technologies ...

Kaizen 101 Kaizen is a term used by practitioners to mean a variety of things. But what does it really mean? What is the essence of Kaizen and what types of initiatives does it create? I will give you ...