Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau highlighted the significance of the Kaizen philosophy in building ...

Incremental and continuous improvement is the backbone of methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, and even standalone Kaizen ...

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 ...

South Africa will host the Africa Kaizen Annual Conference (AKAC) under the theme: African Industrialisation through ...

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 ...

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 ...