Kaizen events are short duration improvement projects with a specific aim for improvement; typically they are week long events led by a facilitator with the implementation team being predominantly members of the area in which the kaizen event is being conducted plus a few additional people from support areas and even management. Kaizen events although… Continue reading Planning and running Kaizen Events
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What is Kaizen?
Kaizen Definition We can define kaizen very simply from its original Japanese as meaning “change for the better”, but what does this actually mean as a kaizen philosophy? Japanese Kaizen Kaizen began its life shortly after world war 2 when the US sent a number of advisers to help the Japanese rebuild… Continue reading What is Kaizen?