Growth companies that master both continuous improvement and breakthrough innovation outpace those that only optimize.

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 ...

The Japanese concept of kaizen fits perfectly into DevOps by pushing people to take responsibility for their operations and fix mistakes as they crop up. Do you see the similarities in this approach ...

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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 training is designed to create a culture of continuous improvement within an organization. The Kaizen process can lead to increased productivity, improved customer service, and better business ...

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 ...

Introducing AI into a lean transformation should be deliberate and testable, just like any kaizen activity. This framework ...

At the heart of Van Kaizen’s model is a very simple realization: the math of traditional recruitment no longer makes sense.