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I told reader Johnny, if you ask Japanese Kaizen expert Chihiro Nakao, he would tell you that “Kaizen is for the workplace ...

Question: How many kaizen events should we do each year? Answer: It depends. It depends on how many improvement events you need to meet your performance improvement commitments for the year. It ...

One of our regular community contributors, Rick Sheridan holds a doctorate of technology in communications and teaches at Wilberforce University. “Kaizen” is a Japanese term meaning “a gradual, ...

IN A GOOD YEAR, THE U.S. manufacturing sector might chalkup a 4% overallincrease in productivity. At the plant level, some top-flight produc-tion operations have achieved gains of 20% or more in a 12- ...

When translated into English, the Japanese word kaizen is typically rendered as “continuous improvement.” Kaizen is the steps you take to improve your processes, frequently by implementing small and ...